I happened upon this after starting one of Karen's short stories in the anthology "Inked". I was actually trying to figure out the timeline of what I was reading and the author's website had this fabulous flow chart with this novella at the starting point.I'm totally intrigued with this series! I've already downloaded the second pre-novella and plan to read it later tonight before looking into the other books. Great way to start a series (even though it's not officially the start of the series).