Copyright

Copyright © S.M. Beiko, 2018

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Editor for the press: Jen Hale

Cover design: Erik Mohr

Interior illustration: S.M. Beiko

Author photo: Teri Hoffard Photography

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Beiko, Samantha, author

Children of the Bloodlands / S.M. Beiko.

(The realms of ancient ; book 2)

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-77041-358-0 (hardcover).

Also issued as: 978-1-77305-229-8 (ePUB),

ISBN 978-1-77305-230-4 (PDF)

I. Title.

PS8603.E428444C55 2018 JC813’.6 C2018-902526-3 C2018-902527-1

The publication of Children of the Bloodlands has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $153 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 153 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays. We also acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council (OAC), an agency of the Government of Ontario, which last year funded 1,737 individual artists and 1,095 organizations in 223 communities across Ontario for a total of $52.1 million, and the contribution of the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishing Tax Credit and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.