Grail of the Summer Stars (Aetherial Tales) (67 page)

Freda Warrington grew up Leicestershire, England. She spent her first years out of school as a graphic designer and illustrator and eventually became a full-time writer. She began writing short stories at a very early age, and by nineteen she had her first novel well under way. She has written twenty novels, including the Jewelfire trilogy and the Blood Wine sequence, all of which have been published in the United Kingdom.

Grail of the Summer Stars
is the third of her Aetherial Tales novels, and her third book to be published in the United States, after the first two books of the Aetherial Tales,
Elfland
and
Midsummer Night
.

Learn more at
www.fredawarrington.com
.

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

GRAIL OF THE SUMMER STARS

Copyright © 2013 by Freda Warrington

All rights reserved.

Cover art by Kinuko Y. Craft

Edited by James Frenkel

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

Warrington, Freda, 1956–

      Grail of the summer stars / Freda Warrington.—First edition.

         p. cm. — (Aetherial tales; 3)

      “A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

      ISBN 978-0-7653-1871-8 (hardcover)

      ISBN 978-1-4299-8651-9 (e-book)

      1.  Painting—Fiction.   2.  Magic—Fiction.   I.  Title.

   PR6073.A75G73 2013

   823'.914—dc23

2012042626

eISBN 9781429986519

First Edition: April 2013