The Edge

About The Edge

The Edge is a narrow, forgotten strip of land that runs between two worlds: the Broken, where magic is a fairy tale and people shop at Wal-Mart, and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule and a person's power can decide their fate. Only people born in the Edge -- Edgers -- can cross freely between the two; everyone else is stuck on one side or the other. Each of the four books follows a different Edge family pulled into danger that starts small and turns out to reach all the way into the Weird's aristocratic power struggles: On the Edge follows Rose Drayton, whose unusual power draws the attention of a Weird nobleman just as something monstrous starts crossing into her world; Bayou Moon sends changeling soldier William into Edge swampland controlled by the fiercely protective Cerise Mar, whose missing parents turn out to be tangled in cross-border espionage; Fate's Edge pairs reformed con artist Audrey Callahan with operative Kaldar Mar on a heist that spirals into something much more lethal than either bargained for; and Steel's Edge follows healer Charlotte de Ney and swordsman Richard Mar as they take on a trafficking network operating across the Edge's blurred borders.

Written by the husband-and-wife team of Ilona and Andrew Gordon under the joint pen name Ilona Andrews, The Edge predates their better-known Kate Daniels and Innkeeper Chronicles series and shares their trademark blend of family loyalty, banter, and escalating stakes, with each book centered on a different couple from the same extended web of Edge families. The series was completed at four books, though two of its characters -- George and Jack -- continue their story later in the Innkeeper Chronicles, beginning with Sweep in Peace.