DREAMING THE SERPENT-SPEAR

A Delta Trade Paperback / May 2007

Published by Bantam Dell

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New York, New York

This 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 persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2007 by Manda Scott

Illustrated map copyright © David Atkinson

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Scott, Manda.

Dreaming the serpent-spear / Manda Scott.

p. cm.

eISBN: 978-0-440-33689-1

1. Boadicea, Queen, d. 62—Fiction. 2. Great Britain—History—Roman period, 55 B.C.–449 A.D.—Fiction. 3. Great Britain—History, Military—55 B.C.–449 A.D.—Fiction. 4. Romans—Great Britain—Fiction. 5. Women soldiers—Fiction. 6. Britons—Fiction. 7. Queens—Fiction. 8. Iceni—Fiction. I. Title.

PR6069.C593D76 2007

823'.914—dc22

2006036821