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A Red Heart of Memories
House, Book 1
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
1999

ISBN: 0-441-00768-6

Praise for Nina Kiriki Hoffman

“A Nina Hoffman story is, by definition, a thing of high quality and mesmeric appeal.”
—Roger Zelazny

“Nina Kiriki Hoffman is a magician. Her words create worlds no one has seen before. Her
characters are charming, her prose lyrical. She is one of the fantasy field’s greatest talents.”
—Kristine Kathryn Rusch

“Most writers show and tell. Nina Hoffman sings.”
—Algis Budrys

“There is absolutely no other voice in contemporary fantasy like Hoffman’s.”
—Ed Bryant

“Nina Kiriki Hoffman is enormously talented.”
—Kate Wilhelm

“Is Nina Hoffman a genius? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.”
—The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

“[Nina Kiriki Hoffman’s] stories are like fire—some are sparks that shoot in the night and catch you
sideways when you’re not looking, others glow like red hot coals that make you all toasty on one side
and sensitive to the cold around you.”
—Rave Reviews

Dedication
This book is for:
Jenny, and Nancy E.,
M. J. Engh, owlwoman,
and the Poetry Lunch crowd:
Holly Arrow, Martha Bayless,
Bruce Holland Rogers,
Ray Vukcevich, and Leslie What
and for Lois Tilton, who asked for more about Matt

Chapter One
MATT Black met the moss man on Christmas Eve.
She was sitting on a stone bench in a pioneer cemetery, with a wall of ivy-covered brick at her back
and a brown paper bag full of past-their-expiration-date plastic-wrapped sandwiches beside her. The
short cool daylight faded. Mist bred in the low spots and spread. The damp in the air smelled like winter,
dead leaves, iced water, chill and no comfort. Matt was glad of her thick olive-drab army jacket.
She liked the look of the old mossy gravestones in the brushy grass, some tilted and some broken,