The Shadows
Authors: Megan Chance
For Maggie and Cleo, with love
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
Text copyright © 2014 by Megan Chance
Author Photo copyright © 2014 C.M.C. Levine
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ISBN-13: 9781477847183 (hardcover)
ISBN-10: 1477847189 (hardcover)
ISBN-13: 1477816232 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 9781477816233 (paperback)
Book design by Abby Kuperstock
Library of Congress Control Number: 2013923549
Contents
There she weaves by night and day
A magic web with colours gay.
She has heard a whisper say,
A curse is on her if she stay
To look down to Camelot.
She knows not what the curse may be,
And so she weaveth steadily,
And little other care hath she,
The Lady of Shalott.
And moving thro’ a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear . . .
. . .
“I am half-sick of shadows,” said
The Lady of Shalott.
“The Lady of Shalott”
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson
[
AND
P
RONUNCIATION
G
UIDE
]
Grainne Alys Knox
[GRAW-nya]
—Grace
Aidan Knox
—
Grace’s brother
Maeve Knox
—
Grace’s mother
Brigid Knox
—
Grace’s grandmother
Patrick Devlin
Lucy Devlin
—
Patrick’s sister
Sarah Devlin
—
Patrick’s mother
Diarmid Ua Duibhne
[DEER-mid O’DIV-na]—
Derry O’Shea
Finn MacCumhail
[FINN MacCOOL]—
Finn MacCool, the leader of the Fianna
Oscar
Ossian
[USH-een]—
Oscar’s father
Keenan
Goll
Conan
Cannel Flannery
—
Seer
Rory Nolan
Simon MacRonan
Jonathan Olwen
Daire Donn
[DAW-re DON]
Lot
Tethra
Bres
Miogach
[MYEE-gok]
Balor
