1.“Bad Girls” by M.I.A.
2.“Back to Black” by Amy Winehouse
3.“How You Like Me Now?” by The Heavy
4.“Madness” by Muse
5.“Papaoutai” by Pentatonix
6.“Love Runs Out” by OneRepublic
7.“Starships” by Nikki Minaj
8.The music of Postmodern Jukebox – especially Von Smith’s “Cry Me A River” cover.
9.“Ain’t No Sunshine” – Bill Withers
10.“Burn” – Hamilton soundtrack
11.“Here” – Alessia Cara
12.“Crazy In Love” – Beyoncé
13.“Good as Hell” – Lizzo
14.“There Are Worse Things I Could Do” – Grease
15.“Adagio in G Minor” – Albinoni
16.“Canned Heat” – Jamiroquai
17.“This is What You Came For” – Calvin Harris
18.“Freedom” – George Michael
19.“Bootylicious” – Destiny’s Child
20.“Sunny Side of the Street” – various Jazz
21.“Bohemian Rhapsody” – Queen
22.“Blank Space” – Taylor Swift
23.“Shape of You” – Ed Sheeran
24.“Sabotage” – Beastie Boys
25.“Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” – Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell
26.“Cold-Hearted Snake” – Paula Abdul
27.“You Give Love a Bad Name” – Bon Jovi
28.“YMCA” – The Village People
29.“Born This Way” – Lady Gaga
30.Crazy Rich Asians soundtrack
31.“I’m Alive” – Michael Franti
32.“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” – Ella Fitzgerald
33.“I Wanna Be Sedated” – The Ramones
34.“Let It Go” – Frozen Soundtrack
35.“Hallelujah” – K.D. Lang
36.“More” – Bobby Darin
37.“Moves Like Jagger” – Maroon 5
38.“Can’t Take My Eyes off of You” – Frankie Valli
39.“Rather Be” – Clean Bandit
Acknowledgments
The Unlikeable Demon Hunter:
First and foremost, thank you to my two secret weapons without whom, this book would only have amused me. Alex Yuschik, I officially give you rock star editor status. You always understand what I’m trying to do and then push me to go farther and be better. Rudy Thauberger, my “nerd editor” extraordinaire, you are amazing and insightful and I look forward to many more nerd talks with you.
Big thanks to Dr. Marc Nantel for the magic chats, Ita Margalit for reading this and saying that she enjoyed it like a real book and not just written by her friend, and Bryn Donovan for her eyes on a very early draft.
To my romance peeps who populate my happy corner of the internet, all the good karma and your favorite things to you. You authors keep me sane, make me laugh, and generously share your wealth of knowledge and experience.
And last, but never ever least, thank you to my husband and daughter for not resorting to physical bodily harm when I’m zoned out at the computer yet again. I love you two crazy, ridiculous amounts.
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Thank you to my dear friend, Dr. Kim Binsted, for her insights on both superpowers and physics. Any mistakes are my own.
Tina Suraci, big hugs for your ice bar knowledge and, most especially, my first ice bar experience. There’s no one else I would rather have gone with.
Alex Yuschik, my rock star editor, I honestly have no words. These books would be pretty pathetic without you and you have all my gratitude.
To my family, can I tell you how lucky I am to have you? None of this means anything without you.
Finally, thank you so much to everyone who followed me from my Tellulah Darling YA romcoms to take a chance on these new, more adult books, and those of you new readers who’ve embraced Nava, Rohan, and the gang. Thank you for promoting me and jetting these books to the top of your TBR pile to review. I am so humbled by this gift you have given me.
This book is for all of you, especially all you fabulously mouthy, funny, brilliant women.
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Mallory Gibson, funny lady, I owe you for the “C Game” joke. The first time I heard it, I laughed out loud and I still do with each re-read. Thanks for letting me use it.
I cannot praise my editor Alex Yuschik enough. Alex, I am so grateful that you’ve been on this entire ride with me and I can’t wait to do the next three (thirty?) together!
Much love to my husband Loreto, who makes me laugh harder than anyone and still gets me giddy and dizzy for him after all these years.
Last, but never least, this one is for my Wilde Ones. You people keep me stocked in great reads, make delightfully snarky comments on a wealth of topics, and stoke my poor fragile writer’s ego with your love of this series. My words, my characters, my heart–I happily give them all to you.
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Big thanks to Jessica Massey Golson for the “Karma” T-shirt gag. You nailed Nava on that one! I just have to say that my Wilde Ones Facebook group is the absolute best and I love (virtually) hanging out with you all.
To my daughter, Kiki, I owe you, kid, for always being willing to talk story with me, and for the smutty fridge magnet idea. You are my joy and my delight and I’m so proud to be your mom.
Alex Yuschik, are you getting tired of me raving about your editorial brilliance, yet? Because I’m not going to stop anytime soon. I owe you so much and I love working with you.
Much gratitude to my family, for supporting me in this crazy endeavor 150%.
To my readers, I have no words. (Okay, I lie. Here I go. Words.) You people are incredible and I am so glad that you love reading these books as much as I love writing them! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for choosing Team Nava.
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Huge thanks to all my friends who always answer my many questions, be it about language, local attractions or the latest in douchey clothing brands. You amazing people go above and beyond for me and I love you for it.
A special thanks to Adele for finding me the most appropriate Hebrew swear words and letting me pester her about Hebrew names when I needed to procrastinate with a series I have yet to write. And also to Nisha Shankar for Corn Man. This book and my L.A. trip would have been so much less without that.
I’m always a bit sad when I’m writing my thanks here to my editor Alex Yuschik because it means that it’s going to be a while before I have another draft to work on together. This collaboration brings me incredible joy and makes my books infinitely better.
To my snarky, brilliant, wonderful readers, can I just say how much I adore you? Especially my Wilde Ones. Not only do you all make me laugh, pimp me new reads, and virtually hang out with me on a regular basis, you give me the best gift of all. Of the gazillions of books out there, you choose to spend your time and money on mine. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. ❤️
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This book was a beast to write. I owe my husband and daughter insane amounts of love for putting up with me and my many mutterings of “What the hell was I thinking?” and “Never let me have this many threads to wrap up. Ever. Again.” Thank you both for being my ultimate cheerleaders, for making sure food showed up in front of me when I was deep in the zone, and being very patient all the times I nodded at what you’d just told me, even when we both knew I hadn’t actually heard you because again, the zone.
Apologies to the city of Jerusalem for the liberties I took with its sewage system and for unleashing the apocalypse at the Wailing Wall.
Thank you to Odel Grant-Kelly for the “Behold the Field of F**ks I Give” T-shirt suggestion that so perfectly captured Nava’s headspace, and also to Tiffany Schidzick for the “In my defense I was left unsupervised” T-shirt idea that was
needed later in the book.
To my much loved editor Alex Yuschik: Holy crap, dude, we did it! An entire series. It has been my joy and privilege to work with you. Now on to our next project.
And finally to my dear readers, thank you for trusting that I’d get you to a happily-ever-after, even though I tormented you mercilessly. ❤️
About the Author
I’m Deborah (pronounced deb-O-rah) and I write sexy, funny, urban fantasy.
I decided at an early age to live life like it was a movie, as befitted a three-syllable girl. Mine features exotic locales, an eclectic soundtrack, and a glittering cast–except for those two guys left on the cutting room floor. Secret supernatural societies may be involved.
They say you should write what you know, which is why I shamelessly plagiarize my life to write about witty, smart women who kick ass, stand toe-to-toe against infuriating alphas, and execute any bad decisions in indomitable style.
“It takes a bad girl to fight evil. Go Wilde.”
www.deborahwilde.com
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