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

Edited by Cynthia Shepp
https://cynthiashepp.wordpress.com/

Cover design by Eric Hubbel

http://hubbelcreative.deviantart.com/

Cover Art by Lily Yang

http://www.lilyyangart.com/

Heraldy by

Axel Löfving

Cartography by Anna B. Meyer
http://http://ghmaps.net/

World of Calliome Logo by Gwyneth Ravenscraft of
G-Sharp Productions

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Acknowledgements

For Tink, without whom this would not
have been possible.

To Steven D. Russell, your encouragement
and enthusiasm was more helpful and inspirational than you can ever know.
R.I.P, my friend.

Thanks to Michael R. Hicks, J.A. Konrath, Chuck
Wendig, and Michael A. Stackpole for encouragement, advice, and inspiration.
You all help give me the drive to make this possible.

Special thanks to Mike Wolff, Craig Majors, John
Adamus, Sam Halpern, Lillian K, KE Casey, and the fine folk in the Fear the
Boot message board community for all their encouragement and feedback.

Hans Cummings

Author/Publisher

Author of the fantasy duology: The
Foundation of Drak-Anor: Wings of Twilight and Iron Fist of the Oroqs as well
as the Zack Jackson science fiction series, Hans Cummings published his first
novel in 2011. Three of his short stories appear in Fear the Boot’s Sojourn
speculative fiction anthologies. He is Nuvo’s Best of Indy — Best Local Author
3rd place Honoree for 2014 and 2015.

Hans is a volunteer for the tabletop
gaming industry ENnie Awards and maintains a gaming blog
http://doctorstrangeroll.wordpress.com
in addition to
his writing blog
http://vffpublishing.com
.

Hans earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in
English from Indiana University in 2006. He grew up in Indiana, Germany, and
Virginia and returned to Indiana when he was 21. He currently lives in
Indianapolis with his wife. Hans’s hobbies include tabletop and computer
gaming, cooking and smoking meat, and igniting young people’s curiosity and
passion for science and exploration.

Learn more about this and other works by the author
at:
http://vffpublishing.com/

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