By C. E. Murphy
The Queen’s Bastard
The Pretender’s Crown (forthcoming)
THE WALKER PAPERS
Urban Shaman
Thunderbird Falls
Coyote Dreams
THE NEGOTIATOR TRILOGY
Heart of Stone
House of Cards
WITH MERCEDES LACKEY AND TANITH LEE
Winter Moon
The Queen’s Bastard is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A Del Rey Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2008 by C. E. Murphy
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Del Rey Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Murphy, C. E. (Catie E.)
The queen’s bastard / C. E. Murphy.
p. cm.
“A Del Rey Books trade paperback original”—T.p. verso.
1. Illegitimate children—Fiction. 2. Kings and rulers—Fiction. 3. Magic—Fiction. 3. Imaginary places—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3613.U726Q84 2008
813'.6—dc22 2007043848
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