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Candace Robb
The Fire in the Flint
Published by Arrow Books in 2004

All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental

Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements ix
Historical Note X
Epigraphs XV
Prologue 1
1. Old Will 7
2. A Visitor 24
3. A Good Husband 42
4. Her Comfortable Sanctuary 64
5. Vows 83
6. So Much Sadness 96
7. A Trap? 110
8. A Man of Questions 129
9. A Death of Soul 151
10. It Will Bring You Only Grief 166
...the marshy ground she slowed down, though still hardly daring to breathe. She glanced back over her shoulder in dread, but although the July night was light enough that she might have seen any movement, she saw no one. Gradually, as the chill of her wet feet drove away any remnant of sleep, she remembered that her handmaid had not stirred on her cot at the foot of the bed. The intruder had not been a fleshly presence then, but a vision.
Christiana struggled to reconstruct the confusing face.
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