TORTALL BOOKS
BY TAMORA PIERCE

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.

Text copyright © 2011 by Tamora Pierce
Jacket photograph copyright © 2011 by Jonathan Barkat

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Pierce, Tamora.
Mastiff / Tamora Pierce. — 1st ed.
p. cm. — (Beka Cooper; bk. 3)
Summary: Beka, having just lost her fiance in a slaver’s raid, is able to distract herself by going with her team on an important hunt at the queen’s request, unaware that the throne of Tortall depends on their success.
eISBN: 978-0-375-89328-5
[1. Kidnapping—Fiction. 2. Police—Fiction. 3. Kings, queens, rulers, etc.—
Fiction. 4. Fantasy.] I. Title.
PZ7.P61464Mas 2011 [Fic]—dc23 2011024152

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Whether it’s for debt, for work, for sex:
For the slaves,
in the hope that one day your freedom comes not through
purchase, illness, or death,
but because slavery and the slavers have been sought out and
stamped out in every home, business, warehouse, ship, quarry,
bar, factory, and nest they inhabit.