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Books by Barbara Michaels
Other Worlds*
The Dancing Floor*
Stitches in Time*
Houses of Stone
Vanish with the Rose
Into the Darkness
Smoke and Mirrors*
Search the Shadows
Shattered Silk
Be Buried in the Rain*
The Grey Beginning*
Here I Stay*
Black Rainbow*
Someone in the House*
The Wizard’s Daughter*
The Walker in Shadows*
Wait for What Will Come
Wings of the Falcon*
Patriot’s Dream
The Sea King’s Daughter*
House of Many Shadows*
Witch
Greygallows*
The Crying Child
The Dark on the Other Side*
Prince of Darkness*
Ammie, Come Home*
Sons of the Wolf
The Master of Blacktower*
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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.
THE GREY BEGINNING. Copyright © 1984 by Barbara Michaels. 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.
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Barbara Michaels, The Grey Beginning
