This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright (c) 2001 by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN: 0-671-31853-5
Cover art by Stephen Hickman
First printing, December 2001
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lackey, Mercedes.
Spirits white as lightning / by Mercedes Lackey & Rosemary Edghill.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-671-31853-5
1. New York (N.Y.)—Fiction. 2. Musicians—Fiction. 3. Wizards—Fiction. I. Edghill, Rosemary. II. Title.
PS3562.A246 S65 2002
813'.54—dc21 2001043349
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
This one's for Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Anderson,
my high school English teachers,
without whom I wouldn't be doing this for a living.
—Rosemary Edghill
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