title: The Supernatural Pet Sitter: The Curse (Volume 2)
author:  Diane Moat 
description: Diane Moat lives in Tennessee and works as a nurse and legal professional. When not at work, she fosters Chihuahuas. Her six rescues inspired her to write <i>The Supernatural Pet Sitter</i> childrens series, which features a gnome who can communicate with animals.
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  [Dedication](index_split_005.html#filepos6485)
  
  For Darlin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Epigraph](index_split_005.html#filepos6601)
  
  “The [ailments] of . . . animals are few and simple, and easily cured . . .
  for the remedy then consists in little more than putting the animal upon a
  direct contrary course to that which brought on the disorder.”
  
  — John Hinds,  
  The Veterinary Surgeon (1836)
  
  “With thyself my spirit fill.”
  
  — Thomas Ken,  
  Hymn from the monastic Divine Office (1692)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > [Dearest Reader](index_split_005.html#filepos6715)
  
  My first love in fiction is a beautifully written romance. If that romance
  includes a bit of high adventure, then I am in alt. I also happen to adore
  mysteries set in country mansions and remote castles, especially murder
  mysteries. So when Ravenna Caulfield, the free-spirited youngest sister among
  my Prince Catchers, suggested to me that she was eager for that sort of
  harrowing fun, I welcomed the opportunity to write 