© 2010 by Stephen Lawhead

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lawhead, Steve.

The skin map / by Stephen R. Lawhead.

p. cm. —(Bright Empires ; no. 1)

ISBN 978-1-59554-804-7 (hardcover)

1. Time travel—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3562.A865S57 2010

813’.54—dc22

2010017750

Printed in the United States of America

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