To everyone who took the time to send us a name suggestion for our impending arrival:

We are grateful and humbled by the tremendous response. As you know, our baby will be arriving soon, and Dante and I have found it quite challenging to settle on just the right name for him. We feel so blessed that all of you came to our rescue with a bounty of wonderful choices! Your care for us and our soon-to-be new addition is heart-warming and very much appreciated.

We thank you all for all the thoughtful effort in helping us.

When our son is born, we will name him

XANDER RAPHAEL

Xander, meaning ‘protector of man’ and Raphael, meaning ‘healer’. A perfect name for our child, and a potential future member of the Order.

With love, Tess and Dante

AND THE WINNERS OF THE CONTEST ARE…

Because it was so hard to choose just one of the many wonderful names that were submitted, two names were chosen as the winners.

Congratulations to Beverly Galvin (who submitted Xander on 6/2 at 11:14) and Sheena Joychan (who submitted Raphael on 6/1 at 22:06)—the official proud godparents of Xander Raphael!!

Both of you will be receiving a custom-printed “Proud Godparent” coffee mug, Midnight Breed series bookmarks, and an autographed copy of Kiss of Crimson, Dante and Tess’s story.

Since both of those names were submitted by several people—at later times—we thought we would add a bonus raffle for those subsequent entries for a chance to win a special reader pack of goodies. By random drawing, the winner of the bonus raffle is Robin Burgess!!

We will be contacting all three winners via email for confirmation of mailing address for your prizes.

Thanks to all for participating in this special contest. We hope you had as much fun with it as we did!