Heart of Light (61 page)

Authors: Sarah A. Hoyt

Tags: #General, #Fantasy, #Fiction, #Fantasy Fiction, #Magic, #Dragons, #Africa, #British, #SteamPunk, #Egypt, #Cairo (Egypt)

And he saw the girl creeping along the outside of a veranda's railing. “Good God,” he said to himself. “What can she be doing?”

Then his body contorted in cough, as fear for the stranger's circumstances disturbed the balance of his mind, and allowed the beast within to take control. . . .

HEART OF LIGHT
A Bantam Book / March 2008

Published by
Bantam Dell
A Division of Random House, Inc.
New York, New York

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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eISBN: 978-0-553-90464-2