© 2011 by Stephen Lawhead

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Publisher’s Note: This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. All characters are fictional, and any similarity to people living or dead is purely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lawhead, Steve.

  The bone house / Stephen R. Lawhead.

      p. cm. — (The bright empires series ; 2)

  ISBN 978-1-59554-805-4

1. Space and time—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3562.A865B66 2011

  813’.54—dc22

2011012768

Printed in the United States of America

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