[SERRAted Edge 09] • Silence

*NEW YORK TIMES *BEST-SELLING AUTHOR. ENTRY #9 IN MERCEDES LACKEY'S CELEBRATED SERRATED EDGE URBAN FANTASY SERIES! 

Teenager Staci's father has just remarried, and now she finds herself being shunted aside by her new stepmother.  Shunted all the way to the run-down and dying Maine town of Silence, in fact, and the custody of her alcoholic mother.

It gets worse.  Silence seems to be stuck in the proverbial stone age. There's no cell phone service except at the very top of a bluff outside of town, no internet except dialup, and not one familiar franchise or business. Staci's mom seems to have gotten even *worse* since the last time Staci lived with her. The only bright spots in the whole place are a friendly waitress at the diner, and a bookstore where she meets a gaggle of geeks and gamers.

But all is not as it seems in Silence. There are strange things moving beneath the shabby surface, terrible plots in play, and deadly players in the game, and Staci is about to find herself caught up in the middle of it all.

**SERRAted Edge Series**

*Born to Run* (#1) by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

*Wheels of Fire *(#2) by Mercedes Lackey and Mark Shepherd

*When the Bough Breaks *(#3)  by Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle

*Chrome Circle* (#4) by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

*Stoned Souls* (#5) by Mercedes Lackey

*Elvendude *(#6) by Mark Shepherd

*Spiritride *(#7) by Mark Shepherd

*Lazerwarz* (#8) by Mark Shepherd

*The Chrome Borne *(omni contains *Born to Run *and *Chrome Circle*) by Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon

*The Other World *(omni contains *When the Bough Breaks *and *Wheels of Fire*) by Mercedes Lackey, Mark Shepherd and Holly Lisle