This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

THE SUMMER PALACE: VOLUME THREE OF THE ANNALS OF THE CHOSEN

 

Copyright © 2008 by Lawrence Watt-Evans

 

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Watt-Evans, Lawrence, 1954–

The summer palace / Lawrence Watt-Evans.—1st ed.

  p. cm.—(the annals of the Chosen ; v. 3)

“A Tom Doherty Associates Book.”

ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1028-6

ISBN-10: 0-7653-1028-7

I. Title

PS3573.A859S86 2008

813’.54—dc22

2008005307

 

First Edition: June 2008

 

Printed in the United States of America

 

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