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that the Maiden of Sorrow knew when she brought her lover back from the dead, and which the boy knew after he had grown up and owed his first-born to the dead warriors. Old Marsh himself knew.

The secret is:

Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.

Copyright © 2006, 2009 by Douglas Clegg

Illustrations Copyright © 2009 by Glenn Chadbourne

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Set in 12.5 point Garamond

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Clegg, Douglas, 1958- Isis / Douglas Clegg. p. cm.

eISBN : 978-0-786-75149-5

1. Haunted houses—England—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Grief—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.L3918I75 2009

813’.54—dc22

2009009776

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