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To my readers, for a dazzle-bright debut year.
Heart-thanks for crewing up with me and Mouse!
May the sea-gods always swim close to you.
First published in Great Britain 2018
by Egmont UK Limited
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Text copyright © Sarah Driver 2018
Illustrations copyright © Ray Tierney 2018
Map illustration copyright © Joe McLaren 2018
Additional illustrations first published in 2017 in the titles The Huntress: Sea and
The Huntress: Sky written by Sarah Driver and published by
Egmont UK Limited, The Yellow Building, 1 Nicholas Road, London, W11 4AN.
Additional illustrations copyright © Joe McLaren 2017
Additional interior illustrations by Janene Spencer.
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First e-book edition 2018
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Ebook ISBN 9781780317656
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Excerpt from The Sharkskin Scripts, Volume I: The Great Trianukkan Tribes
10 One Condition
PART 2: The Moonlands
11 The Inn Between
12 Diggers-tip Cold
13 Disbelievably Wretched Slackwit
14 Lucky Find
15 Bloodcakes
16 By Tooth, by Nail
17 Burial
18 You with the Fire
19 Forest of Nightfall
20 Sneaky Trees
21 True Mystiks
PART 3: The Beasts are Coming
22 Nightfall
23 Akhund Olm
24 The College of Medsin
25 Webs and Smog
26 Beckoning the Spirits Out
27 Rough as a Clam
28 Gather the Ghosts
29 The Shadow of Spiders
30 Back from the Brink
31 Realm of Fog and Pearls
32 Don’t You Remember?
33 The Belly for the Work
34 Breaking the Chains
35 Not Too Clever
36 Wherever We Rest Our Bones
37 Brew an Uprising
38 Battle
39 False Crown
40 The Crown
41 Frozen Breath
42 My Daughter
43 Thaw
44 Sea, Sky, Land