DragonflyinAmber

eVersion 1.1 - see revision notes at end of text Dragonfly In Amber Diana Gabladon BOOK 2 IN THE OUTLANDER SERIES EBook Design Group digital back-up edition v1 HTML March 26, 2003 CONTENTS o Prologue o Part One - Through a Looking Glass, Darkly o Part Two - The Pretenders o Part Three - Malchance o Part Four - Scandale o Part Five - "I Am Come Home" o Part Six - The Flames of Rebellion o Part Seven - Hindsight For my husband, Doug Watkins- in thanks for the Raw Material Prologue ^ " I woke three times in the dark predawn. First in sorrow, then in joy, and at last, in solitude. The tears of a bone-deep loss woke me slowly, bathing my face like the comforting touch of a damp cloth in soothing hands. I turned my face to the wet pillow and sailed a saltry river into the caverns of grief remembered, into the subterranean depths of sleep. I came awake then in fierce joy, body arched bowlike in the throes of physical joining, the touch of him fresh on my skin, dying along the paths of my nerves as the ripples of consummation spread from my center. I repelled consciousness, turning again, seeking the sharp, warm smell of a man's satisfied desire,......