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Contents
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Map
Prologue: you are here
1: you, at the end
2: Damaya, in winters past
3: you’re on your way
4: Syenite, cut and polished
5: you’re not alone
6: Damaya, grinding to a halt
7: you plus one is two
8: Syenite on the highroad
Interlude
9: Syenite among the enemy
10: you walk beside the beast
11: Damaya at the fulcrum of it all
12: Syenite finds a new toy
13: you’re on the trail
14: Syenite breaks her toys
15: you’re among friends
16: Syen in the hidden land
17: Damaya, in finality
18: you discover wonders down below
19: Syenite on the lookout
Interlude
20: Syenite, stretched and snapped back
21: you’re getting the band back together
22: Syenite, fractured
23: you’re all you need
Appendix 1: A catalog of Fifth Seasons that have been recorded prior to and since the founding of the Sanzed Equatorial Affiliation, from most recent to oldest
Appendix 2: A Glossary of Terms Commonly Used in All Quartents of the Stillness
Acknowledgments
Extras Meet the Author
A Preview of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
A Preview of The Killing Moon
Also by N. K. Jemisin
Praise for The Inheritance Trilogy
Praise for the Dreamblood Duology
Orbit Newsletter
Copyright
Copyright
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
Copyright © 2015 by N. K. Jemisin
Excerpt from The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms copyright © 2010 by N. K. Jemisin
Excerpt from The Killing Moon copyright © 2012 by N. K. Jemisin
Map © Tim Paul
Cover design by Lauren Panepinto
Cover photo © Archangel-Images
Cover © 2015 Hachette Book Group, Inc.
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