Lackey & Flint & Freer - Alexandria 2 - This Rough Magic

862 Pages·2016·2.81 MB·English

by  Lackey Mercedes

This Rough Magic
Mercedes Lackey,
Eric Flint
& Dave Freer
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in
this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or
incidents is purely coincidental.
Copyright © 2003 by Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint & Dave Freer
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or
portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
P.O. Box 1403
Riverdale, NY 10471
www.baen.com
ISBN: 0-7434-7149-0
Cover art by Larry Dixon
First printing, December 2003
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
TK
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020
Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America
To Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas
(1474–1566 a.d.)
BAEN BOOKS by MERCEDES LACKEY
Also in this series:
The Shadow of the Lion
BARDIC VOICES
The Lark & the Wren
The Robin & the Kestrel
The Eagle & the Nightingales
The Free Bards (omnibus)
Four & Twenty Blackbirds
Bardic Choices: A Cast of Corbies
(with Josepha Sherman)
The Fire Rose
Beyond World's End
(with Rosemary Edghill)
Spirits White as Lightning
(with Rosemary Edghill)
Mad Maudlin
(with Rosemary Edghill)
Bedlam's Bard
(omnibus with Ellen Guon)
Born to Run (with Larry Dixon)
Wheels of Fire (with Mark Shepherd)
Chrome Circle (with Larry Dixon)
The Chrome Borne
(omnibus with Larry Dixon)
The Otherworld
(omnibus with Mark Shepherd & Holly Lisle)
The Ship Who Searched
(with Anne McCaffrey)
Castle of Deception
(with Josepha Sherman)
Fortress of Frost & Fire (with Ru Emerson)
Prison of Souls (with Mark Shepherd)
Lammas Night
(edited by Josepha Sherman)
Werehunter
Fiddler Fair
BAEN BOOKS by ERIC FLINT
Joe's World series:
The Philosophical Strangler
Forward the Mage (with Richard Roach)
The Belisarius series, with David Drake:
An Oblique Approach
In the Heart of Darkness
Destiny's Shield
Fortune's Stroke
The Tide of Victory
The General series, with David Drake:
The Tyrant
1632
1633 (with David Weber)
Mother of Demons
BAEN BOOKS by DAVE FREER
The Forlorn
Rats, Bats & Vats (with Eric Flint)
Pyramid Scheme (with Eric Flint)
Prologue
Autumn, 1538 a.d.