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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books

Copyright ® 1992 by Katherine Kurtz

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-53218

ISBN-0-345-38478-4

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Hardcover Edition: December 1992
First Mass Market Edition: December 1993

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Map by Shelly Shapiro

For
Lester del Rey
with affection and gratitude
contents
PROLOGUE FOR HE MUST REIGN, TILL HE HATH PUT ALL ENEMIES UNDER HIS FEET. -/ CORINTHIANS 15:25
I And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them. -Isaiah 3:4
II Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. -Revelations 3:11
III These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself. -Psalms 50:21
IV Behold, I have set before thee an open door -Revelations 3:8
V For thou hast maintained my right and cause. -Psalms 9:4
VI Separate thyself from thine enemies, and take heed of thy friends. -Ecclesiasticus 6:13
VII They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause. -Psalms 109:3
VIII Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right. -Proverbs 16:13
IX A prudent man concealeth knowledge. -Proverbs 12:23
X I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal. -Job 27:11
XI Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment. -Psalms 104:2
XII In a trance I saw a vision. -Acts 11:5
XIII Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words. -Job 33:8
XIV And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? -/ Corinthians 15:30
XV Surely I will keep close nothing from you. -Tobit 12:11
XVI Let us examine him with despitefulness and torture, that we may know his meekness . . . -Wisdom of Solomon 2:19
XVII For the hand of the artificer the work shall be commended. -Ecclesiasticus 9:17
XVIII Forget not thy friend in thy mind ... -Ecclesiasticus 37:6
XIX Observe, and take good heed, for thou walkest in peril of thy overthrowing. -Ecclesiasticus 13:13
XX For there are certain men crept in unawares. . . .--Jude 1:4
XXI He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length. -Proverbs 29:21