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A Del Rey Book
Published by Ballantine Books
Copyright © 1991 by C. J. Cherryh
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copy-right Conventions. Published in the United States of America by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 91-91909
ISBN 0-345-37943-8
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Hardcover Edition: November 1991
First Mass Market Edition: November 1992