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Sarah A. Hoyt




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 This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are
fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright ┬й 2006 by Sarah A. Hoyt

A Baen Books Original

Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com

ISBN 10: 1-4165-2092-9
ISBN 13: 978-1-4165-2092-4

Cover art by Veronica Casas

First printing, November 2006

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:
t/k

Printed in the United States of America




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The July night sprawled, warm and deep blue over Goldport, Colorado. In the distance the
mountains were little more than suspicions of deeper darkness, a jagged outline where no stars appeared.
Most of Goldport was equally dark, from its slumbering suburbs to the blind silence of its downtown
shops. Only the streetlights shone, at intervals, piercing the velvet blackness like so many stars.
At the edge of the western suburbs that climbed -- square block after square block -- into the lower
slopes of the Rockies, the neon sign outside a Chinese Restaurant flickered. Three Luck Dragon flared,
faded, then flared again and finally turned off completely.
A hand with nails that were, perhaps, just a little too long turned over a sign that hung on the window,
so that the word closed faced the parking lot.
After a while, a sound broke the silence. A flapping, noise, as though of sheets unfurling in the silent