Deep Secret

Deep Secret
Diana Wynne Jones

A fantasy adventure about saving the universe one world at a time from Diana Wynne Jones. The companion novel to the bestselling The Merlin Conspiracy.Magids look after all worlds, steer them towards magic, and keep history happening. But Rupert Venables’ mentor has just died, and as the junior magid on earth he has to find a replacement while also trying to find the lost heir of a collapsing empire, worlds away. Rupert interweaves the fate lines to get all the candidates together at a sci-fi fantasy convention, and havoc ensues as they all converge on a very strange hotel, where everything is always linked, the walls keep moving, people are trying to kill him, and nothing is as it seems…a magical, epic story from the Godmother of fantasy.

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First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1997

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Contents

Title Page (#u9142fa83-0953-5e30-b55f-5540ac290a6c)

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Prologue (#u53161953-99db-5e6c-9996-a43821d80342)

Chapter One (#ulink_847c18e1-b212-53eb-9ae3-d98f73b9d541)

Chapter Two (#ulink_0600ab12-2602-5838-8d3e-f8ae663b88af)

Chapter Three (#ulink_58bd2c5f-c05e-579e-85e8-c31b8e24ffed)

Chapter Four (#ulink_6c9d7adb-7b0e-5a6d-ab37-e658a2163c5f)

Chapter Five (#ulink_45386aa1-e40e-5c13-a953-977cbbfc0a70)

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Chapter Ten (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-five (#litres_trial_promo)

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About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

Titles by Diana Wynne Jones (#litres_trial_promo)