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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the authors’ imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 by W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O’Neal Gear

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First Gallery Books hardcover edition February 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gear, Kathleen O’Neal.
    Fire the sky / by Kathleen O’Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear.—1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
       p. cm.—(Contact, the battle for America; bk. 2)
  Includes bibliographical references.
1. Southern States—Discovery and exploration—Spanish—Fiction. 2. Mound builders—Mississippi—Fiction. 3. Indians of North America—Fiction. 4. Soto, Hernando de, ca. 1500—1542—Relations with Indians—Fiction. I. Gear, W. Michael. II. Title.
      PS3557.E18F57 2011
      813’.54—dc22                                                                                              2010041736

ISBN 978-1-4391-5389-5
ISBN 978-1-4391-6707-6 (ebook)