the bloodlight chronicles

Steve Stanton

ECW Press

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Copyright © Steve Stanton, 2010

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library and archives of canada cataloguing in publication

Stanton, Steve, 1956 –

Bloodlight chronicles : reconciliation / Steve Stanton.

ISBN 978-1-55022-954-7

I. Title.

PS8587.T3237B56 2010 C813'.54 C2010-901262-3

Design and artwork: Juliana Kolesova

Editor: Chris Szego

Development and typesetting: David Caron

Printed and bound in Canada

This book is set in Garamond 3, produced by Linotype in 1936, designed by Morris Fuller Benton and Thomas Maitland Cleland in 1917, based on the work of Jean Jannon in the 1600s and Claude Garamond in the 1500s. The chapter headings and folios are in Bank Gothic, designed by Morris Fuller Benton in 1930.

The publication of The Bloodlight Chronicles: Reconciliation has been generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested

$20.1 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada,

by the Ontario Arts Council, by the Government of Ontario through

the Ontario Media Development Corporation and the Ontario Book Publishing

Tax Credit, and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

First printing, 2010

“Have you seen the gates of the shadow of death?

Have you comprehended the vast expanses of earth?

Tell me, if you know all this.

What is the way to the abode of light?”

Job 38:17–19