Teenager Staci&s father has just remarried & now she finds herself being shunted aside by her new stepmother Shunted all the way to the run-down & dying Maine town of Silence in fact & 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 & 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 & a bookstore where she meets a gaggle of geeks & gamers But all is not as it seems in Silence There are strange things moving beneath the shabby surface terrible plots in play & deadly players in the game & Staci is about to find herself caught up in the middle of it all SERRAted Edge Series Born to Run (1) by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon Wheels of Fire (2) by Mercedes Lackey & Mark Shepherd When the Bough Breaks (3) by Mercedes Lackey & Holly Lisle Chrome Circle (4) by Mercedes Lackey & 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 & Chrome Circle) by Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon The Other World (omni contains When the Bough Breaks & Wheels of Fire) by Mercedes Lackey Mark Shepherd & Holly Lisle Meet the Author Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series & the Serrated Edge series (both Baen) the Heralds of Valdemar series & many more She&s the coauthor of the contempory meta-hero SF series The Secret World Chronicle Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose The Lark & the Wren & also The Shadow of the Lion & Burdens of the Dead with Eric Flint & Dave Freer She lives in Oklahoma Cody Martin is a coauthor with Mercedes Lackey of three other books in the metahero saga The Secret World Chronicle including entries Invasion World Divided Revolution & Collision He is an avid gamer but spends his extra time chained to a computer writing Originally from Scottsdale Arizona he currently resides in Florida