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Daughter of the Stars [070-066-4.8]

By: Phyllis A. Whitney

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Copyright 1994 by Phyllis A. Whitney

Random House, Inc." New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland

Reproduced by arrangement with Crown Publishers, Inc." New York, USA

The right of Phyllis A. Whitney to be identified as the Author of the
Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.

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All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced,
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means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor
otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in
which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on
the subsequent purchaser.

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

A CIP catalogue record for this title is available from the British


ISBN 0 340 63779 X

Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of Chatham plc, Chatham, Kent

Hodder and Stoughton A Division of Hodder Headline PLC 338 Euston Road London
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For Georgia, my daughter, my best friend, always my first editor.

Through the gloom of the night, Sunday, October 16, 1859, a small band
of men tramped silently behind a horse-drawn wagon down a winding
Maryland road leading to Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

From the shoulder of each man hung loosely a Sharps rifle, hidden by
long gray shawls that protected the ghostly figures against the chilling
air of approaching winter. A slight drizzle of rain veiled the towering
Blue Ridge Mountains with an eerie mist. Not a sound broke the
stillness, save the tramping feet and the creaking wagon.