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Authors: Robin Hobb

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She ran half a dozen steps before she had the courage to beat her wings. Her feet left the ground briefly, and then she crashed down again. But she didn’t fall. Her wings were open and wide and they caught her and cushioned her fall.

“Sintara!” she heard someone shout in awe. “Look at Sintara!”

Another dozen running steps and this time she beat her wings more slowly and powerfully.

And when she leaped, she left the ground behind.

Day the 17th of the Rain Moon

Year the 6th of the Independent Alliance of Traders

From Detozi, Keeper of the Birds, Trehaug

To Reyall, Acting Keeper of the Birds, Bingtown

Enclosed, a formal announcement from the Dushank Trader Family of the Rain Wild Traders, Trehaug, to be publicly posted in the Bingtown Traders’ Concourse, being an announcement of the intention of the Trader family of Dushank of the Rain Wild Traders to accept a marriage offer from the Dunwarrow Trader family to join their offspring in marriage.

Reyall!

And so you are the first to know of the official announcement.

Erek and Detozi

About the Author

ROBIN HOBB
is the author of the Farseer, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man, and Soldier Son trilogies. She has also written as Megan Lindholm. She currently resides in Tacoma, Washington. Don’t miss the first book in the Rain Wilds Chronicles,
Dragon Keeper
, also available from Eos.

www.robinhobb.com

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HE
R
AIN
W
ILDS
C
HRONICLES

Dragon Keeper

T
HE
S
OLDIER
S
ON
T
RILOGY

Shaman’s Crossing

Forest Mage

Renegade’s Magic

T
HE
F
ARSEER
T
RILOGY

Assassin’s Apprentice

Royal Assassin

Assassin’s Quest

T
HE
L
IVESHIP
T
RADERS
T
RILOGY

Ship of Magic

Mad Ship

Ship of Destiny

T
HE
T
AWNY
M
AN
T
RILOGY

Fool’s Errand

Golden Fool

Fool’s Fate

W
RITING AS
M
EGAN
L
INDHOLM

Harpy’s Flight

The Limbreth Gate

The Windsingers

Luck of the Wheels

Wizard of the Pigeons

Reindeer People

Wolf’s Brother

Alien Earth

Cloven Hooves

The Gypsy
(with Steven Burst)

Credits

Jacket design by Richard Aquan

Jacket illustration by Steve Stone

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

DRAGON HAVEN
. Copyright © 2010 by Robin Hobb. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for

EPub Edition © April 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-199348-0

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