Tor Books by Cat Adams
BLOOD SINGER
Tor Books by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp
TALES OF THE SAZI
THE THRALL
CAT ADAMS
CAT ADAMS
BLOOD
SONG
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
New York
This is a work of fiction. Al of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are
used fictitiously.
BLOOD SONG
Copyright © 2010 by C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp
Al rights reserved.
A Tor Book
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ISBN 978-0-7653-2494-8
First Edition: June 2010
Printed in the United States of America
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DEDICATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and always, we would like to thank Cathy’s husband, Don, and Cie’s son, James, for unstinting support and believing in us. Also to our wonderful
agent, Merrilee Heifetz; her able assistant; our editor; and the throng of other folks who help bring a book from the idea stage to actual, written words
on the page. Special thanks to our friends and family, and the other writers who offer understanding when we need it.
Cie would like to specifical y thank her brother, Tim, whose inexhaustible knowledge of basebal helped more than we can say. Even though we
didn’t get to put much of what he told us on the page, it was necessary to know for setting the scene. Special thanks go out to the folks at McAnal y’s
Pub on Jim Butcher’s forum, and particularly Lord Nedd for the use of the fez. For the record, there are a couple of instances of homage to Jim
Butcher in this book. In this case, imitation real y is meant as the sincerest form of flattery, as we find his books to be bril iant.
Last, but not least, thanks to you, the readers, for coming along for the ride. We hope you enjoy reading these books as much as we enjoy writing
them.
A NOTE TO READERS
First, in my (Cie’s) opinion, for the most part happy families do not make for interesting reading. I don’t know why. They do, however, make for
happy writers. Every time a writer creates a character with a particularly troubled background (or a kinky sexual bent), it seems that somebody
out in the “real world” assumes that the writer is working from personal experience. So al ow me to state for the record that Celia Graves’s
background and troubles are al her own. They do not reflect any personal experience on the part of either of the authors. Thank God!
Part of the fun of writing is research. In order to make the fantasy portions more believable, you have to be very careful to get the “real” portions
right. Stil , inevitably, some glitches slip in. The setting of this book is Southern California. We created a fictional city of Santa Maria de Luna and
slapped it down on the coast between San Juan Capistrano and Oceanside, right on top of Camp Pendleton, which obviously doesn’t exist in this
reality (our apologies to the U.S. Marines). Just as we created our own city, we came up with a university and rehab facility. But there are scenes
that take place in Anaheim Stadium and other actual locations. While those portions of the book were researched heavily, it is possible that
errors slipped in. If so, please forgive us.
In this reality, the kingdom of Ruslund is located in the western half of the Ukraine, a few miles to the west of Kiev. It was formed about the time
of the Union of Lublin, with a splinter section al ying itself with the Cossacks to form the new country with one of the nobles becoming king. The
religion was Eastern Orthodox (which pleased the Cossacks), and the people resisted the Polish conversion to Catholicism that actual y caused
rifts in the Ukraine in our version of history.
—C. T. Adams and Cathy Clamp
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