Hell Hath No Fury

IT ALL STARTED AS A MISTAKE!

Both Arcana and Sharona had explored scores of universes, each a duplicate of its own, without ever encountering another human civilization.

Then that changed.

Two survey expeditions met in the cool shadows of an autumn forest. No one knows who shot first, but both sides have suffered heavy casualties, and each blames the other. Now both sides want possession of Hell's Gate, the cluster of inter-universal portals and their survey forces met in blood . . . and neither is prepared to let the other have it . . .

Arcana's wizards, dragons, and gryphons are about to meet Sharona's bolt-action rifles, machine guns, and mortars. Transport dragons are about to meet steam locomotives. And all that either side really knows is that neither of them has ever seen a war like the one about to begin.

Cover art by Kurt Miller
Map by Randy Asplundh

Hardcover
Paperback
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, March 2007

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weber, David, 1952–
Hell hath no fury / David Weber & Linda Evans.
p. cm.
"A Baen Books original"—T.p. verso.
ISBN 1-4165-2101-1
1. Space warfare—Fiction. 2. Life on other planets—Fiction.
I. Evans, Linda. II. Title.
PS3573.E217H44 2006
813'.54—dc22
2006100465

Pages by Joy Freeman (www.pagesbyjoy.com)
Printed in the United States of America

ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2101-3
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2101-1

Copyright© 2007 by David Weber & Linda Evans

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