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Authors: Anne Bishop

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Twilight's Dawn

BOOK: Twilight's Dawn
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Table of Contents
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ALSO BY
 
ANNE BISHOP
 
The Black Jewels Series
Daughter of the Blood
Heir to the Shadows
Queen of the Darkness
The Invisible Ring
Dreams Made Flesh
Tangled Webs
The Shadow Queen
Shalador’s Lady
 
The Ephemera Series
Sebastian
Belladonna
 
The Tir Alainn Trilogy
The Pillars of the World
Shadows and Light
The House of Gaian
 
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First published by Roc, an imprint of New American Library,
a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
 
First Printing, March 2011
 
Copyright © Anne Bishop, 2011
All rights reserved
REGISTERED TRADEMARK—MARCA REGISTRADA
 
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA:
Bishop, Anne.
Twilight’s dawn: a black jewels book/Anne Bishop.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-47593-5
1. Witches—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3552.17594T85 2008
813’.54—dc22
2010040929
 
 
 
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PUBLISHER’S NOTE
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For all the readers
who made this journey with me
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
 
 
My thanks to Blair Boone for continuing to be my first reader, to Debra Dixon for being second reader, to Doranna Durgin for maintaining the Web site, to Nadine Fallacaro and Julie Green for answering questions about things medical, to Jennifer Jackson and Anne Sowards for their continued enthusiasm for the
Black Jewels
stories, to David Rapkin and John Sharian for bringing the characters to life in the audio book, and to Pat Feidner just because.
JEWELS
 
 
WHITE
YELLOW
TIGER EYE
ROSE
SUMMER-SKY
PURPLE DUSK
OPAL*
GREEN
SAPPHIRE
RED
GRAY
EBON-GRAY
BLACK
 
*Opal is the dividing line between lighter and darker Jewels because it can be either.
 
When making the Offering to the Darkness, a person can descend a maximum of three ranks from his/her Birthright Jewel.
 
Example: Birthright White could descend to Rose.
Author’s Note: The “Sc” in the names Scelt and Sceltie is pronounced “Sh.”
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