Jennifer Fallon
Treason Keep
The Demon Child Trilogy Book 2
Harshini 02 - Treason Keep
THE DEMON CHILD TRILOGY BOOK 02
Jennifer Fallon
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Jennifer Fallon
A DF Books NERDs Release
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.
TREASON KEEP. Copyright (c) 2001 by Jennifer Fallon. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of PerfectBound(rm).
ILLUSTRATIONS. Copyright (c) 2001 by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law.
EXCERPT FROM HARSHINI. Copyright (c) 2001 by Jennifer Fallon.
Jennifer Fallon asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.
Print edition first published in February 2001 by Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Pty Limited.
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For Dace Mikel O’Brien,
the original God of Thieves,
and as always, Adele Robinson
Acknowledgments
My life is many things, but boring isn’t one of them. Despite a wedding, a birth, a book launch, two house moves, a new business and a few other rather traumatic incidents that I would rather not relive, this book was written in considerably less time than
As always, there are the usual suspects who deserve my thanks for their unswerving faith and their high tolerance levels in putting up with me during the creation of this work. In particular, I would like to thank my children, Amanda, TJ and David for their support and for filling my life with so many distractions that I have, though sheer necessity, mastered the art of focussing on writing to the exclusion of all else. They will readily attest to this fact, although they may be surprised how often I’ve heard them lament to each other “don’t bother asking her anything, she’s writing”.
I would like to thank Stephanie Smith, Darian Causby and Midge McCall, and all the other people at HarperCollins who I have never met but who have contributed to this series, along with Lyn Tranter and Cathy Perkins at Australian Literary Management and also Sarah Endacott. Stephanie Pui-Mun Law has once again created an awesome cover and I remain one of her most ardent fans.
With my dying breath, I will be thanking Harshini Bhoola for her never-ending enthusiasm and her constant re-reading of the manuscripts, and it still won’t repay her. Thanks also to my good friend Peter Jackson for encouraging me to take a step into the unknown and my favourite sycophants, Toni-Maree and John Elferink MLA for helping me keep my feet on the ground while my head was in the clouds.
Part 1
POLITICS AND POWER GAMES
