Copyright © 2015 by Julie E. Czerneda.

All Rights Reserved.

Jacket art by Matt Stawicki.

Jacket designed by G-Force Design.

Jacket photograph by Roger Czerneda.

DAW Book Collectors No. 1671.

Published by DAW Books, Inc.

375 Hudson Street, New York, NY 10014.

ISBN: 978-0-698-19003-0

All characters and events in this book are fictitious.

Any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly coincidental.

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First Printing, November 2015

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