Vessel

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Every book is a journey, and many wonderful people trekked across the sand with Liyana and me. I’d like to thank my spectacular agent, Andrea Somberg, and my magnificent editor, Karen Wojtyla, as well as Justin Chanda, Paul Crichton, Emily Fabre, Siena Koncsol, Lucille Rettino, Anne Zafian, and all the other amazing people at Simon & Schuster for believing in this journey. Many thanks and much love to my family, whose support makes every quest possible. Huge thanks to my mother, who showed me the way by teaching me to love books and to dream of dragons; to my daughter, who named nearly every character that Liyana and I met; and to my husband, who shares every step of every journey with me.

On the day she was to die, Liyana walked out of her family’s tent to see the dawn. She buried her toes in the sand, cold from the night, and she wrapped her father’s goatskin cloak tight around her shoulders. She had only moments before everyone would wake.

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