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The Edge lies betorlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and ic is a fairy tale-and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roae your destiny

Born to a family of cone for an unical existence in the Broken Audrey is deterht and narrow, but when her brother gets into hot water, the for ith a jack of all trades

Kaldar Mar is a gambler, a lawyer, a thief, and a spy with souarantee hi down a stolen itee-until Audrey turns up to give hi item falls into the hands of a lethal criminal, Kaldar realizes that in order to finish the job and survive, he’s going to need Audrey’s help

Praise for the Novels of the Edge

"[An] engaging urban fantasy series opener"-Publishers Weekly

"A thoroughly entertaining blend of humor, action, misdirection, and roue

If she had only one word to describe Dominic Milano, it would be unflappable, Audrey Callahan reflected Stocky, hard, balding-he looked like he had just walked out of Central Casting after successfully landing the role of "bulldog-jawed older detective" He owned Milano Investigations and under his supervision, the firency rattled Do knocked hi to the Pacific Northwest, he’d retired from the Miami police department with over a thousand homicide cases under his belt He’d been there and done that, so nothing surprised hi his furry eyebrows creep up on his forehead was so satisfying

Doraph froed down the street The next shot showed Spense bending over The next one caught hi back, a tennis ball in his fingers Which would be fine and dandy, except that according to his doctor, Spense suffered fro a warehouse when a walk-behind forklift got away fro pain He could frequently be seen lihborhood with a cane or a walker He needed help to get into a car and he couldn’t drive because the injured disk pinched the nerve in his right leg

Doreat We’ve been following this guy for weeks and nothing How did you get these?"

"A very short tennis skirt He hobbles past a tennis court every Tuesday and Thursday on the way to his physical therapy sessions" The hardest part was hitting the ball so it would fly over the tall fence A loud gasp and a run with an extra bounce in her step, and she had hih the stack The next photo showed Spense with a goofy grin on his face carrying two cups of coffee, race of a deer

"You bought hiher

"Of course not He bought rinned

"You really enjoy doing this, don’t you?" Dominic reflected

She nodded "He’s a liar and a cheat, who’s been out of work for ht he was so s to be cut down to size and she had just the right pruning shears Chop-chop

Dominic moved the coffee picture aside and stopped "Is this what I think this is?"

The next i ahim backward over his head onto aa Gerht soes to do his physical therapy on the first floor and after the session is over, he walks up the stairs to spar"

Do She leaned back "Suddenly you don’t seerimaced "I look at you and I’m confused People who do the best in our line of work are unremarkable They look just like anyone else and they’re easily forgettable, so suspects don’t pay attention to them They have soe You’re too pretty, your hair is too red, your eyes are too big, you laugh too loud, and according to your transcripts, you barely graduated fro sirens wailed in her head Doraduation before eht him both her diploma and her senior year transcript For some reason he bothered to pull her file and review the contents Her driver’s license was first rate, because it was real Her birth certificate and her high school record would pass a cursory inspection, but if he dug any deeper, he’d find serprints, he would find criminal records in two states

Audrey kept the s eyes"