When Darkness Falls
Mercedes Lackey
Contents
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
WHEN DARKNESS FALLS: THE OBSIDIAN TRILOGY, BOOK 3
Copyright © 2006 by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lackey, Mercedes.
When darkness falls / Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory.1st ed.
p. cm.(The Obsidian trilogy ; bk. 3)
A Tom Doherty Associates book.
ISBN 0-765-30221-7 (acid-free paper)
EAN 978-0-765-30221-2
I. Mallory, James. II. Title.
PS3562.A246W46 2006
813'.54dc22 2005034506
First Edition: July 2006 Printed in the United States of America
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Prologue
The Surface of the Mirror