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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

тАЬA Nina Hoffman story is, by definition, a thing of high quality and mesmeric appeal.тАЭ
тАФRoger Zelazny

тАЬNina 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 fieldтАЩs greatest talents.тАЭ
тАФKristine Kathryn Rusch

тАЬMost writers show and tell. Nina Hoffman sings.тАЭ
тАФAlgis Budrys

тАЬThere is absolutely no other voice in contemporary fantasy like HoffmanтАЩs.тАЭ
тАФEd Bryant

тАЬNina Kiriki Hoffman is enormously talented.тАЭ
тАФKate Wilhelm

тАЬIs Nina Hoffman a genius? Oh, yes. Yes, indeed.тАЭ
тАФThe Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction

тАЬ[Nina Kiriki HoffmanтАЩs] stories are like fireтАФsome are sparks that shoot in the night and catch you
sideways when youтАЩre not looking, others glow like red hot coals that make you all toasty on one side
and sensitive to the cold around you.тАЭ
тАФRave 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,