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Robert Newcomb The Gates of Dawn

For my parents, Harry and Muriel.

Blessed are the children of endowed blood. They are the very future of both the craft and the practice known as the Vigors. For without the merciful side of the craft, all semblances of order and compassion shall become as dust upon the wind. And it shall then be for those very same innocents—the children—that we shall forever weep . . .

—From the private journals of Wigg, onetime lead wizard of the Directorate of Wizards

Acknowledgments

Many thanks must go to those who helped make this, the second of my books, all it could be. To my agent, Matt Bialer, whose faith in me seemingly never wavers, and to my hugely patient editor, Shelly Shapiro, who is my trusted literary gyroscope. And to my publicist, Colleen Lindsay, and all the other folks at Del Rey who have helped make this series a success. A large helping must also go to the many booksellers—the folks in the stores who help introduce the reading public to the realms of the fantastic. And last, but surely not least, to my wife Joyce, who started it all by daring me to succeed.