by Lian Tanner
Thanks also to my Australian publishers, Allen & Unwin, especially publishing director Eva Mills and editor Kate Whitfield, who helped me make the book a lot better than it would otherwise have been.
Thanks to the very insightful Peter Matheson, for being such a critical (in a good way) first reader, and to my excellent agents Jill Grinberg and Margaret Connolly, who continue to look after my interests so well. And last but not least, thanks to my niece Gwyn for kindly letting me use a slightly different version of her name for the heroine of this story.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lian Tanner is the author of the Keepers trilogy (Museum of Thieves, City of Lies, Path of Beasts), winner of numerous awards around the world, including the Aurealis Award for Children’s Fiction. She lives in Australia. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Prologue
Chapter 1: Three Hundred Years Later
Chapter 2: Hilde
Chapter 3: Ariel’s Way
Chapter 4: Listen and Obey!
Chapter 5: The Mountains
Chapter 6: The Attack on the Citadel
Chapter 7: The Wild Mountain Men
Chapter 8: The Bring Back
Chapter 9: The Fetch
Chapter 10: Waiting
Chapter 11: A Proper Conversation
Chapter 12: A Small, Rough Voice …
Chapter 13: The Singer and the Song
Chapter 14: He’s Been Took
Chapter 15: The Dreadful Idea
Chapter 16: Betrayal
Chapter 17: Everyone She Loved
Chapter 18: It Cannot Be Her
Chapter 19: The Hidden Path
Chapter 20: The Ferry
Chapter 21: The First to Fall
Chapter 22: Do You Think Me So Gullible?
Chapter 23: The Grand Monument
Chapter 24: That Dreadful Voice
Chapter 25: Witch
Chapter 26: Downward
Chapter 27: The Door
Chapter 28: Inside the Grand Monument
Chapter 29: Bargains
Chapter 30: Moss and Dirt
Chapter 31: The End of the World …
Chapter 32: I Am Not Made for Fighting
Chapter 33: Our Zeppaleen
Chapter 34: The End of the Beginning
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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Originally published as Fetcher’s Song in 2016 in Australia by Allen & Unwin.
First published in the United States by Feiwel and Friends.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-250-05218-6 (hardcover) / ISBN 978-1-250-12888-1 (ebook)
First US edition—2017
eISBN 9781250128881
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