I would also like to send my love and appreciation to all those people who support me in little ways every day…my Mum and Dad, Gillybean, Mum and Dad Harding, Karen, Claire, Lisa, Mo and Ken, Shane and Wendy, my brothers, Steven and Kyle, and all my family and friends. Thanks for reminding me what I’m living and working for.
About the Author
Traci Harding lives on the Hawkesbury River, with her husband David and their two beautiful children, Sarah and John.
Traci has written two best-selling trilogies—The Ancient Future Trilogy and The Celestial Triad—as well as three standalone novels, The Alchemist‘s Key, Ghostwriting, and Book of Dreams. Traci is currently working on the second book of the Mystique trilogy, to be released in 2006.
Thanks to the web team at HarperCollins, Traci has a very lively website and she visits the message board in the community section daily to discuss the greater mysteries with her readers. At the website there are glossaries of the terms used in Traci‘s books and there are author notes for those interested in delving deeper into all aspects of this author‘s work.
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Books by Traci Harding
The Ancient Future Trilogy
The Ancient Future: the Dark Age (Book One)
An Echo in Time: Atlantis (Book Two)
Masters of Reality: the Gathering (Book Three)
The Alchemist’s Key
The Celestial Triad
Chronicle of Ages (Book One)
Tablet of Destinies (Book Two)
The Cosmic Logos (Book Three)
Ghostwriting
The Book of Dreams
The Mystique Trilogy
Gene of Isis (Book One)
Copyright
Voyager
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited
First published in Australia in 2005
This edition published in 2010
by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited
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Copyright © Traci Harding 2005
The right of Traci Harding to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her under the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.
This work is copyright. Apart from any use as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Harding, Traci.
Gene of Isis.
ISBN 0 7322 7391 9(pbk.).
ISBN: 978 0 7304 4434 3(epub)
I. Title. (Series : Harding, Traci. Mystique trilogy ; bk. 1). A823.3
pl38 extract from ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’, a poem by John Keats, 1820 p600 quotations from the Proverbs of Solomon: 22:17; 23:10; 15:6; 23:4 (Bible, KJV)
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