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The Rose Labyrinth

Titania Hardie
Chapters (45)
  1. Cover
  2. THE ROSE LABYRINTH
  3. Titlepage
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. PROLOGUE
  7. 1
  8. 2
  9. 3
  10. 4
  11. 5
  12. 6
  13. 7
  14. 8
  15. 9
  16. 10
  17. 11
  18. 12
  19. 13
  20. 14
  21. 15
  22. 16
  23. 17
  24. 18
  25. 19
  26. 20
  27. 21
  28. 22
  29. 23
  30. 24
  31. 25
  32. 26
  33. 27
  34. 28
  35. 29
  36. 30
  37. 31
  38. 32
  39. 33
  40. 34
  41. EPILOGUE
  42. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  43. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  44. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  45. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Cover

THE ROSE LABYRINTH

Titlepage

Copyright page

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A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2008 by Titania Hardie

Design, illustrations, and layout © 2008 by Quadrille Publishing Ltd.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2008 by Headline Review Published by arrangement with Quadrille UK

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever. For information address Atria Books Subsidiary Rights Department, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

ATRIA BOOKS and colophon are trademarks of Simon & Schuster, Inc.

Lines from “He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” reprinted with the permission of Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, from The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume I: The Poems, Revised, edited by Richard J. Finneran. New York: Scribner, 1997. All rights reserved.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hardie, Titania.
The rose labyrinth / by Titania Hardie.
p. cm.
1. Dee, John, 1527–1608—Fiction. 2. Family secrets—Fiction. 3. Code and cipher stories. I. Title.
PR6108.A723R67 2008
823'.92—dc22 2008023406

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8603-6
ISBN-10: 1-4165-8603-2

Dedication

For my husband, Gavrik Losey,
who is my peace whenever the Tempest blows.

CHALLENGE: The parchments tucked under the flap are a key part of the quest in The Rose Labyrinth. The central characters will not uncover them for many chapters; you have the advantage. Can you decipher part or all of them, and discover where the quest will lead? Do so and you’ll also reveal deeper secrets, not fully explained within the narrative.

There is a carefully worded message hidden across the pages: can you find it, even though the characters never do?

The illustrations on the backs of the cards form a puzzle. Assemble the images in the right order, and a visual clue will emerge from the labyrinth. Spot it, and you may claim a permanent place at the heart of The Rose Labyrinth.

In great contests, each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing, at the same time.

—Abraham Lincoln

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“Vexilla Regis prodeunt inferni
verso di noi; pero dinanza mira,”
disse ’l maestro mio “se tu ’l discerni.”

PROLOGUE

ST. GEORGE’S DAY, APRIL 1600,
AT AN INN ON THE ROAD TO LONDON