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• Cerise Mar: Trained warrior. Head of her family since her parents have been abducted. Also called "Ceri" by her family.
• William Sandine: Wolf Changeling, who is hired by The Mirror as a spy to find out what the Hand plans in order to attack Adrianglia.
• Spider: Spy and assassin of The Hand, which serves the Dukedom of Louisiana in the Weird.
• Kaitlin Sheerile: Head of the Sheerile family, mother to Lagar, Peva and Arig.
• Lagar Sheerile: Eldest brother of the Sheerile family, which has been periodically at feud with the Mars.
• Peva Sheerile: Second Sheerile brother
• Arig Sheerile: Third Sheerile brother.
• Virai: The head of Adrianglian Secret Service, The Mirror, but "you may call me Nancy, if you would prefer."
• Erwin: Virai's body guard, part of The Mirror.
• Genevieve Mar: Cerise's mother
• Gustavus Mar: Cerise's father
• Sophie "Lark" Mar: Cerise's sister
• Kaldar Mar: Cerise's cousin, Richard's brother, a thief and jack of all trades; can make things happen if he bets on it.
• Richard Mar: Cerise's cousin, Kaldar's brother.
• Catherine: Cerise's cousin, sister of Richard, Kaldar and Erian.
• Erian: Cerise's cousin. Was taken in by Cerise's parents when his father got murdered before his eyes.
• Grandma Az: One of the Mars, real name Azan, powerful swamp witch, also blade flasher and trainer of Cerise.
• Urow: Cerise Mar's cousin. Half-human, Half-thoas. The Thoas are an old race that may have once been human. Urow is five feet tall and nearly as wide (all muscle), grey skin, and his left arm is extra long with black claws.
• Clara Mar: Urow's wife. Urow & Clara's children include 3 boys: Gaston, Ry, and Mart, and a baby girl named Sydney.
• Petunia Mar "Aunt Pete": hunter, pie-baker, and autopsy-provider. Mother of Ignata and Mikita.
• Mikita Mar: Aunt Pete's son
• Ignata Mar: Aunt Pete's daughter
• Vern: hired guide through the Mire for both William and Cerise.
• Zeke Wallace: Owns Zeke's Leathers in Sicktree (in the Mire). He is William's contact with the Mirror.
• Ruh: Spider's tracker. He is skeletally thin and and brick red skin. He has bird-like talons on his feet and grows a tentacle.
• Thibauld: Spider's crew. Severely altered, ambush class.
• Posad: Spider's crew. Bred/created to control bees, he now works as Spider's gardener of special plants.
• Karmash: Spider's crew and second in command, more brawn than brain. Keeps losing his temper and making irrational decisions.
• Goldmint: A plant that registers the life or death of the members of Spider's crew.
• Veisan: Spider's best slayer. Compulsively weaves baskets and rugs as an alternative to killing the rest of the crew.
• John: works for Spider as a scientist who "fuses" humans with magical beings and plants. He fuses Genevieve with a tree to make her more compliant in order to help Spider.
• Lavern: Spider's dumbest hunter, turned cannibal
• Vur: Spider's crew. A bird that has poison claws.
• Clyde: court bailiff of the Mire's own legislative system. He has a big green swamp cat instead of a watch dog.
• Dobe: the Mire's judge
• Declan Riel Martel: Earl of Camarine,

Quotes edit see section history

• “Do me a huge favor, Lord William. Keep your thoughts to yourself for the next few miles. If you keep talking, I’ll have to hit you with this pole, and nobody wants that.”

  Cerise Mar

• “Slowly the reality of the situation sank in. He got his ass kicked, learned nothing, and got saved by a dumb dog and an old lady. If he lived long enough to make a report to Nancy back in Adrianglia, he would have to gloss over this part.”

  William Sandine

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• Fuck easy, Ceri. If you love him, fight for him. Nothing worth keeping is free in this world.

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• Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

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• “I guess you’re familiar with the law. You hit it over the head, set its house on fire, and got its sister pregnant.”

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• “The rule is: often wrong but never in doubt. That’s what makes you different. You show doubt, and nobody will follow you.”

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• When she was a teenager, she used to imagine meeting a stranger. He would be from the Weird or the Broken, not from the Mire. He would be lethal and tough, so tough, he wouldn’t be afraid of her. He would be funny. And he would be handsome. She’d gotten so good at imagining this mysterious man, she could almost picture his face. William would kick his ass.

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• You can feel sorry and second-guess yourself later, after you’ve won and you’ve got leave, a bottle, and a woman.”

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• And if someone offered him a handmade sweater, he’d snap their neck and take off for the woods.

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• Some women waited for a knight in shining armor. She, apparently, had ended up with a knight in black jeans and leather, who wanted to chase her down and have his evil way with her.

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• When sarcasm flies over a blueblood’s head, does it make a sound? No, I guess not.

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• People like us don’t give a flying fuck about noble. We fight to win. We fight dirty and we use everything we’ve got, because the job is not to throw your life away. The job is to take the other fucker out.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• The Weird: The magical world that parallels the non-magical.
• The Broken: The non-magical world of technology. People there have little to no knowledge of magic.
• The Edge: The place between the two worlds.
• The Mire: A very large swampy area between the Dukedom of Louisiana in the Weird and the state of Louisiana in the Broken. The dukedom exiles criminals there. The population of the Mire is largely the exiles' descendants.
• Dukedom of Louisana: a part of the Weird in which changlings are killed
• Adrianglian: A part of the Weird where changlings are separated at birth into "schools" where they are trained to be warriors.
• Sicktree

Organizations edit see section history

• Adrianglian Mirror: Military/spy organization which defends Adrianglian against the Dukedom of Lousiana
• Louisianan Hand: Military/spy organization which defends the Dukedom of Louisiana against Adrianglian.

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Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by On the Edge, and followed by Fate's Edge.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Ilona Andrews (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Victoria Vebell (Cover Artist)
2. Annette Fiore-DeFex (Designer)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 3196 vol. 2
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Magic & Wizards
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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