To all my readers, thanks again for waiting a little longer for this one, but the wait is over now, so…ENJOY!
About the Author
Traci Harding lives on the Hawkesbury River, with her husband David and their two beautiful children, Sarah and John.
Traci has written two best-selling trilogies—The Ancient Future Trilogy and The Celestial Triad—as well as three stand alone novels, The Alchemist’s Key, Ghostwriting, and The Book of Dreams. Traci is currently working on the first book of her new trilogy Being of the Field
Thanks to the web team at HarperCollins, Traci has a very lively website and she visits the message board in the community section daily to discuss the greater mysteries with her readers. At the website there are glossaries of the terms used in Traci’s books and there are author notes for those interested in delving deeper into different esoteric and historic aspects of her work.
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Books by Traci Harding
The Ancient Future Trilogy
The Ancient Future: the Dark Age (1)
An Echo in Time: Atlantis (2)
Masters of Reality: the Gathering (3)
The Alchemist’s Key
The Celestial Triad
Chronicle of Ages (1)
Tablet of Destinies (2)
The Cosmic Logos (3)
Ghostwriting
The Book of Dreams
The Mystique Trilogy
Gene of Isis (1)
The Dragon Queens (2)
The Black Madonna (3)
Copyright
HarperVoyager
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First published in Australia in 2008
This edition published in 2010
by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited
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Copyright © Traci Harding 2008
The right of Traci Harding to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Author: Harding, Traci.
Title:The black madonna / author, Traci Harding.
Publisher: Pymble, N.S.W.: HarperCollins, 2008.
ISBN 978 0 7322 8113 7 (pbk.)
ISBN 978 0 7304 4329 2 (epub)
Series: Harding, Traci. Mystique trilogy 3.
Dewey Number:A823.3
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