title: Windfall (The Weather Warden, Book 4)
author:  Rachel Caine 
description: Rachel Caine is the author of more than twenty novels, including the "Weather Warden" series. She was born at White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, and an insurance investigator, and still carries on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Popeye and Darwin; a <i>mali uromastyx</i> named (appropriately) O&rsquo;Malley; and a leopard tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course).
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  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  
  
  Couldn’t have happened without Sondra Lehman, Josefine Corsten, Sharon Sams,
  and my friends at LSG Sky Chefs.
  
  
  Thanks also to Lucienne Diver and Anne Bohner, without whom . . . well, you
  know!
  
  
  
  
  
  ABOUT THE AUTHOR
  
  
  In addition to the Morganville Vampires series, Rachel Caine is the author of
  the popular Weather Warden series, which includes _Ill Wind, Heat Stroke,
  Chill Factor, Windfall, Firestorm,_ and _Thin Air_. Her seventh Weather Warden
  novel, _Gale Force_ , will be released in August 2008. Rachel and her husband,
  fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguanas, Pop-eye and
  Darwin; a _mali uromastyx_ named (appropriately) O’Malley; and a leopard
  tortoise named Shelley (for the poet, of course).
  
  
  Please visit her Web site at [www.rachelcaine.com](http://www.rachelcaine.com)
  and her MySpace,
  [www.myspace.com/rachelcaine](http://www.myspace.com/rachelcaine).
  
  
  
  
  
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