The Lady of the Sea (41 page)

Copyright © 2004 by Rosalind Miles

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Originally published hardcover in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK, London, and subsequently in hardcover in the United States by Crown Publishers, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2004.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Miles, Rosalind.

The lady of the sea : the third of the Tristan and Isolde novels / Rosalind Miles.—1st ed.

Sequel to: The maid of the white hands.

1. Isolde (Legendary character)—Fiction.         2. Tristan (Legendary character)—Fiction.         3. Mark, King of Cornwall (Legendary character)—Fiction.         4. Triangles (Interpersonal relations)—Fiction. 5. Cornwall (England : County)—Fiction. 6. Knights and knighthood—Fiction. 7. Arthurian romances—Adaptations. 8. Adultery—Fiction. 9. Ireland—Fiction. 10. Queens—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6063. I319L33 2004

813' .914—dc22

2004010503

eISBN: 978-0-307-33755-9

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