The Dark Age (54 page)

Traci Harding lives on the Hawkesbury River, with her husband David and their two beautiful children, Sarah and John.

Traci has written two best-selling trilogies — The Ancient Future Trilogy and The Celestial Triad — as well three standalone novels,
The Alchemist's Key, Ghostwriting
, and
Book of Dreams
. Traci is currently working on the second book of the Mystique trilogy.

Thanks to the web team at HarperCollins, Traci has a very lively website and she visits the message board in the community section daily to discuss the greater mysteries with her readers. At the website there are glossaries of the terms used in Traci's books and there are author notes for those interested in delving deeper into different esoteric and historic aspects of this author's work.

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www.voyageronline.com.au/traciharding

 

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The Ancient Future Trilogy

The Ancient Future: the Dark Age (1)

An Echo in Time: Atlantis (2)

Masters of Reality: the Gathering (3)

The Alchemist's Key

The Celestial Triad

Chronicle of Ages (1)

Tablet of Destinies (2)

The Cosmic Logos (3)

Ghostwriting

The Book of Dreams

The Mystique Trilogy

Gene of Isis (1)

Voyager
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Publishers
, Australia

First published in 1996
This edition published in 2011
This edition published in 2006
by HarperCollins
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Copyright © Traci Harding 1996

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Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000
.

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Copyright Act 1968
, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Harding, Traci.

The ancient future — the dark age.

ISBN 0 7322 8374 4.

ISBN: 978-0-7304-4580-7 (epub).

I. Title

A823.3

Maps and castle plans by David Harding