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Mahalo to our friends in Hawaii who graciously allowed us to
stay in their homes while researching this bookтАФKay and Daniel
Susott, Dan and Keiko Formanek, and Carol and Craig Severance. I
would also like to thank Kam Sung for giving me a copy of the
Permaculture documentary he produced, which introduced me to the
philosophy of primal societies.
Thanks to Ted White, George Andrews, Richard Moore, Dave
Bischoff, and Steve Brown, who gave valuable feedback not only
regarding the novella from which this book grew, тАЬKamehamehaтАЩs
Bones,тАЭ but who immensely improved everything I put through the
group.
Thanks to Wanda Collins and Pam Noles for critiquing this
manuscript, Bil Click for the first-draft map, and John Gribbin for
granting permission to use a quotation from his book Unveiling the
Edge of Time. David Hartwell also deserves many thanks, for
helping me envision the book within the original material and
helping it come to light.
Thanks especially to my husband, Joseph, for our times in
Hawaii and for the enthusiasm with which he has supported my
ideas and this Project.
And finally, thanks to my parents, Tom and Irma Goonan, for
having the courage to move to Hawaii with three small children
when it was a brand-new state.
I must have been born under an unlucky star, as I seem to have
my life planned out for me in such a way that I cannot alter it.
тАФVictoria Kaiulani, HawaiiтАЩs last princess, in a letter to a friend
Jersey, England, 1897
What matters is that there seems to be nothing in the laws of
physics that forbids travel through wormholes.
тАФJohn Gribbin,
Unveiling the Edge of Time




THE BONES OF TIME




PROLOGUE

Waikiki, Hawaii
February 2, 1887
The first thing Princess Kaiulani saw, as her eyes adjusted to the
dim light in her motherтАЩs sickroom, was the old holy man. The
kahuna.
Her breath caught in her throat as she paused in the doorway.
Thin as a barracuda, golden and dry as sand, he looked out of
place, yet stood with grace and authority. Polished Victorian