This Scepter'd Isle
Mercedes Lackey and
Roberta Gellis
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 © 2004 by Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis
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: 0-7434-7156-3
Cover art by Larry Dixon
First printing, February 2004
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lackey, Mercedes.
This scepter'd isle / by Mercedes Lackey & Roberta Gellis.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books Original"--T.p. verso.
ISBN 0-7434-7156-3 (HC)
1. Great Britain--Kings and rulers--Succession--Fiction. 2. Elizabeth I, Queen of
England, 1533-1603--Fiction. 3. Avalon (Legendary place)--Fiction. 4. Prophecies--
Fiction. 5. Queens--Fiction. I. Gellis, Roberta. II. Title.
PS3562.A246T48 2004
813'.54--dc22
2003022161
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Printed in the United States of America
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CHARACTER LIST
The Sidhe (Shee)
Child of Dannae (Dan'-nay)
—applied to all Sidhe; deathly insult to say one of the Sidhe does not deserve the name
High King Oberon (O'-ber-on)/Queen Titania (Ty-tane'-ee-a)
—rulers of all Elves
King Huon (Hugh'-on)/Queen Melusine (Mel'-u-seen)
—rulers of French elves
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