Lives of Kings

  “I’m going to die.”

  Copyright © Lucy Leiderman, 2014

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  All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

  Editor: Allister Thompson

  Design: Courtney Horner

  Cover design by Courtney Horner

  Cover images © Ocean Photography

  Epub Design: Carmen Giraudy

  Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

  Leiderman, Lucy, author

  Lives of kings / Lucy Leiderman.

  Issued in print and electronic formats.

  ISBN 978-1-4597-2355-9

  I. Title.

  PS8623.E473L59 2014 jC813’.6 C2014-902952-7

  C2014-902953-5

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