Riven - Jerry B. Jenkins [0]
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Epilogue
Praise for Riven
* * *
RIVEN
by
JERRY B. JENKINS
* * *
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Carol Stream, Illinois
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Riven
Copyright © 2008 by Jenkins Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved.
Cover photograph by Erik Peterson. Copyright © 2008 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
Author photo copyright © 2007 by Mikel Healy Photography. All rights reserved.
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jenkins, Jerry B.
Riven / Jerry B. Jenkins. p. cm.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-0904-0 (HC)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-2283-4 (Palm)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-2281-0 (MS Reader)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-2282-7 (Mobipocket)
ISBN-13: 978-1-4143-2284-1 (Sony)
I. Title. PS3560.E485R57 2008 813'.54—dc22 8014001
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To Steve Musick
Let the water and the blood,
From Your riven side which flowed,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me pure.
—from “Rock of Ages”
Author’s Note
This is the novel I have always wanted to write.
I determine whether a novel idea has merit by how long it stays with me. Do I find myself telling the story to my wife and other confidants? Is it the type of tale that will draw me back to the keyboard every day?
Two-thirds of my published books have been novels, and only three have had that effect on me. Oh, I give my all to every one, but special joy and anticipation attend those that genuinely feel like the best ideas.
In your hands lies my fourth such labor of love.
The two main characters have remained in my memory since high school forty years ago. The story idea is perhaps twenty years old. And those mystical, interweaving elements I hope make it all work have