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First published in the US by HarperTeen in 2018
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Published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Children’s Books in 2018
Published in this ebook edition in 2018
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Text copyright © Rebecca Ross LLC 2018
Map illustration by Virginia Allyn
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Source ISBN: 9780008245986
Ebook Edition © March 2018 ISBN: 9780008245993
Version: 2018-01-16
For Ruth and Mary, Mistress of Art and Mistress of Knowledge
Contents
Map of the Realms
Map of Maevana’s Territories
Cast of Characters
Allenach Family Tree
MacQuinn Family Tree
Morgane Family Tree
Kavanagh Family Tree
Prologue
PART ONE–Magnalia
1. Letters and Lessons
2. A Maevan Portrait
3. Cheques and Marques
4. The Three Branches
5. The Stone of Eventide
6. The Fall
7. Eavesdropper
8. The Summer Solstice
9. Song of the North
10. Of Cloaks and Gifts
11. Buried
PART TWO–Jourdain
12. A Patron Father
13. Amadine
14. Passion Brother
15. Elusive Bonds
16. The Grim Quill
17. A Sword Lesson
18. Oblique
19. Summer’s End
20. To Stand Before a King
PART THREE–Allenach
21. The Mademoiselle with the Silver Rose
22. d’Aramitz
23. To Pass Through a Tapestry
24. The Hunt
25. The Warning
26. Wounds and Stitches
27. That Which Cannot Be
28. A Divided Heart
29. The Words Wake from Their Slumber
30. The Three Banners
31. A Clash of Steel
PART FOUR–MacQuinn
32. Let the Queen Rise
33. Fields of Corogan
34. Aviana
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