Ace Books by Patricia A. McKillip

THE FORGOTTEN BEASTS OF ELD

THE SORCERESS AND THE CYGNET

THE CYGNET AND THE FIREBIRD

THE BOOK OF ATRIX WOLFE

WINTER ROSE

SONG FOR THE BASILISK

RIDDLE-MASTER: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY

THE TOWER AT STONY WOOD

ACE BOOKS, NEW YORK

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

THE TOWER AT STONY WOOD

An Ace Book Published by the Berkley Publishing Group

A division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014

The Penguin Putnam World Wide Web site address is http://www. penguinputnam.com

Copyright © 2000 by Patricia A. McKillip.

Book design by Kinuko Y. Craft

All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

First Edition: May 2000

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McKillip, Patricia A.

The tower at Stony Wood / Patricia A. McKillip — Rev.

p. cm. ISBN 0-441-00733-3

I. Title.

PS3563.C38 T69 2000 813'.54-dc21 99-040441

Printed in the United States of America 10 987654321