Frais
Grau
Novembros
Dormente
CAST OF CHARACTERS
HUMANS IN THE STORY
RESIDENTS OF SPROING
Horace and Hector Adams—owners of the stables
Sheridan Ames—owner of Ames Funeral Home, along with her brother Samuel
Jane Argyle—postmistress
Pops Davies—owner of the general store
Victoria “Vicki” DeVine—owner/caretaker of The Jumble and the Reader for the terra indigene settlement
Paulo Diamante—attorney
Julian Farrow—owner of Lettuce Reed
Fred and Larry—owners of the bait-and-tackle shop
Helen Hearse—manager of Come and Get It, the village diner
Gershwin Jones—owner of Grace Notes
Silas and Ethel Milford—fruit growers
Bertram Roundtree—mayor of Sproing
Dr. Steven Wallace—junior partner at the medical office; medical examiner
Ellen C. Wilson and her son, Theodore
Dominique Xavier—works for Ineke
Ineke Xavier—runs the boardinghouse
Paige Xavier—works for Ineke
Maxwell—Ineke’s border collie (no one told him he isn’t human)
POLICE
Captain Douglas Burke—patrol captain in Lakeside
Wayne Grimshaw—Sproing’s chief of police
Captain Walter Hargreaves—patrol captain, Bristol Police Station
Detective Samuel Kipp—leader of the Bristol Criminal Investigation Unit (CIU)
Officer David Osgood—works with Grimshaw
GUESTS AT THE JUMBLE AND THE MILL CREEK CABINS
Richard Cardosa
Fred and Wilma Cornley
Edward Janse
Peter Lynchfield
Ben Malacki
Jenna McKay
Rodney Roash
David Shuman
Ian Stern
Michael Stern
THE REST OF THE HUMANS IN THE STORY
Meg Corbyn—blood prophet, Lakeside Courtyard
Constance Dane—Yorick Dane’s second wife
Yorick Dane—Vicki DeVine’s ex-husband
Adam Fewks—student
Greg O’Sullivan—agent in the Investigative Task Force
Tom Saulner—teenage boy; aka Hatchet Head
Jesse Walker—Intuit, Prairie Gold
Hope Wolfsong—blood prophet, Sweetwater
THE OTHERS (AKA TERRA INDIGENE)
Aiden—a Fire Elemental
Air—an Elemental
Bobcat—Lynxgard
Conan Beargard—Black Bear
Coyote—Coyotegard
Crowbones—Elder and Hunter
Agatha Crowgard (aka Aggie Crowe)
Civil Crowgard
Clara Crowgard
Eddie Crowgard
Jozi Crowgard
Serious Crowgard
Earth—an Elemental
Elders—old, powerful forms; are called Namid’s teeth and claws
The Five—Elders
The Lady of the Lake—a Water Elemental
Robert “Cougar” Panthera—Panthergard
The Ponies: Fog, Twister, and Whirlpool
Boris Sanguinati—Ilya’s driver
Erebus Sanguinati—leader of all the Sanguinati in the Northeast Region of Thaisia
Ilya Sanguinati—attorney; leader of the Sanguinati around Lake Silence
Karol Sanguinati—fosterling
Kira Sanguinati—fosterling
Lara Sanguinati—fosterling
Natasha Sanguinati—CPA; Ilya’s mate
Nicolai Sanguinati—lived in Bennett
Nyx Sanguinati—lives in the Lakeside Courtyard
Stavros Sanguinati—leader of the Sanguinati in Talulah Falls; a problem solver
Tolya Sanguinati—leader of the Sanguinati in Bennett
Viktor Sanguinati—fosterling
Vladimir Sanguinati—lives in the Lakeside Courtyard; runs the bookstore with Simon Wolfgard
Sproingers
Water—an Elemental
Winter—an Elemental
Simon Wolfgard—leader of the Lakeside Courtyard; runs the bookstore with Vlad Sanguinati
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My thanks to Blair Boone for continuing to be my first reader and for providing encouragement and feedback in the story’s roughest stage; to Debra Dixon for being second reader; to Doranna Durgin for maintaining the Web site; to Adrienne Roehrich for running the official fan page and Ashley Laxton for running the Anne Bishop Fans and Anne Bishop Fans—Spoiler Group pages on Facebook; to Jennifer Crow for luring me into the nonfiction section of bookstores and showing me all sorts of other possibilities to explore; to Anne Sowards and Jennifer Jackson for the feedback that helps me write a better story; to all the publicity and marketing folks at PRH who help get the book into readers’ hands; and to Pat Feidner for always being supportive and encouraging.
A special thanks to all the friends who offered to let me use their names for characters in the Others’ world. You know who you are.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop is a winner of the William L. Crawford Memorial Fantasy Award, presented by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, for The Black Jewels Trilogy. She is also the author of the Ephemera series, the Tir Alainn trilogy, the Novels of the Others, and the World of the Others novels—including Wild Country and Lake Silence. She lives in upstate New York.