Free Isis by Douglas Clegg

loved him more than life itself. I had called him back to life from that open window inside myself—that place where I could speak with the dead themselves, if I loved them enough.
     
    I know the secret that Isis herself knew when she resurrected her brother Osiris, and the secret that the Maiden of Sorrow knew when she brought her lover back from the dead, and which the boy knew after he had grown up and owed his first-born to the dead warriors. Old Marsh himself knew.
     
    The secret is:
     
    Death has a price, and all who bargain with the dead must pay it.
     

Copyright © 2006, 2009 by Douglas Clegg
    Illustrations Copyright © 2009 by Glenn Chadbourne
     
     
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    Set in 12.5 point Garamond
     
    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
     
    Clegg, Douglas, 1958- Isis / Douglas Clegg. p. cm.
    eISBN : 978-0-786-75149-5
    1. Haunted houses—England—Fiction. 2. Death—Fiction. 3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Grief—Fiction. I. Title.
    PS3553.L3918I75 2009
    813’.54—dc22
    2009009776
     
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