By These Ten Bones (15 page)
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Authors: Clare B. Dunkle
Sincere thanks to my editor, Reka Simonsen, for caring just as much as I do about our books at every stage of their development and progress.
Heartfelt thanks to Ross Noble, member of the Historic Environment Advisory Council for Scotland and curator emeritus of the Highland Folk Museum, for his many constructive suggestions and his invaluable assistance in correcting the manuscript for historical accuracy.
Special thanks to Father Nicholas Mary, C.Ss.R., of Golgotha Monastery in the Orkney Islands, for his assistance in researching the historical and religious background of this story and for his prudent, perceptive criticisms of the manuscript.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Dunkle, Clare B.
By these ten bones / Clare B. Dunkle.
p. cm.
Summary: After a mysterious young wood carver with a horrifying secret arrives in her small Scottish town, Maddie gains his trustâand his heartâand seeks a way to save both him and her townspeople from an ancient evil.
ISBN: 978-1-4299-9092-9
[1. WerewolvesâFiction. 2. Wood carversâFiction. 3. Secretsâ
Fiction. 4. CourageâFiction. 5. ScotlandâFiction.] I. Title.
PZ7.D92115By 2005
[Fic]âdc22 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 2004052359
Originally published in the United States by Henry Holt and Company
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