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E
LIZABETH
A
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S
CARBOROUGH
is the author of
Channeling Cleopatra, Cleopatra 7.2,
and the Nebula Award–winning
The Healer’s War
, as well as more than twenty science fiction and fantasy novels. She lives in the Puget Sound area of Washington State.

www.annemccaffrey.org
www.eascarborough.com

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BOOKS IN THE ACORNA SERIES

A
CORNA

S
C
HILDREN

Second Wave

First Warning

A
CORNA

By Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

A
CORNA

S
Q
UEST

By Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball

A
CORNA

S
P
EOPLE

By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

A
CORNA

S
W
ORLD

By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

A
CORNA

S
S
EARCH

By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

A
CORNA

S
R
EBELS

By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

A
CORNA

S
T
RIUMPH

By Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

See also

A
NNE
M
C
C
AFFREY

S
T
HE
U
NICORN
G
IRL

An illustrated novel featuring stories by Micky Zucker Reichert, Jody Lynn Nye, and Roman A. Ranieri

Credits

Jacket design by Ervin Serrano

Jacket illustration by Chris McGrath

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SECOND WAVE
. Copyright © 2006 by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Mobipocket Reader July 2006 ISBN 0-06-119754-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-052540-8
ISBN-10: 0-06-052540-1

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Glossary of Terms and Proper Names in the Acorna Universe

Brief Notes on the Linyaari Language

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Other Books in the Acorna Series

Credits

Cover

Copyright

About the Publisher

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