© Edward Willett, 2014

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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Edited by Matthew Hughes

Cover and text designed by Tania Craan

Typeset by Susan Buck

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Willett, Edward, 1959-, author

          Song of the sword / Edward Willett.

(Shards of Excalibur ; book 1)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-55050-580-1 (pbk.).--ISBN 978-1-55050-581-8 (pdf).--

ISBN 978-1-55050-799-7 (epub).--ISBN  978-1-55050-800-0 (mobi)

          I. Title.  II. Series: Willett, Edward, 1959-  Shards of

Excalibur ; book 1.

PS8595.I5424S66 2014                jC813'.54              C2014-900463-X

                                                                                      C2014-900464-8

Library of Congress Control Number 2014931278

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