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Sheriff Riley Buchanan is a good man...but a man possessed. Plagued by vicious and uncontrollable impulses, he lives in fear of surrendering to real love. Even after years apart, he still craves one woman, Hope Summers, above all others, and will do anything to protect her from harm--even tempt fate.
Hope is a woman with her own secrets. For months she has eluded her abusive ex-husband, a ruthless creature who won't rest until Hope and her kind are destroyed. Hope's fantasies are still haunted by Riley, the one man who might help her, and the man whose searing touch she cannot forget. But surrendering to their long-denied passion could mean the destruction of everything they hold dear....
- Sales Rank: #648974 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-11-15
- Released on: 2012-11-15
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
Rhyannon Byrd is a longtime fan of romance and the author of more than thirty paranormal and erotic titles. She has been nominated for three Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards, including best Shape-shifter Romance. After having spent years enjoying the glorious sunshine of the American South and Southwest, Rhyannon now lives in the beautiful, but often chilly county of Warwickshire in England with her husband and family. Visit her website at www.rhyannonbyrd.com.
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Some desires can be deadly…
Saturday morning
He needed a woman. In the worst possible, gut-wrenching way. And yet none of the women Riley Buchanan passed on his way through the quaint seaside town of Purity, Washington, fit the bill. None were quite what he wanted. What he craved. The redhead watering plants outside the floral shop was too thin, the blonde swishing her miniskirt-covered ass in front of him too tall, when what he needed was someone…
He searched, trying to place a mental hold on the words, but they failed him.
Or you're just too stubborn to admit who you really want. Even to yourself.
"Shut up," he muttered to the annoying voice in his head, hunching his shoulders against the blisteringly cool breeze blowing in off the Pacific. The salt-scented air—so different from the dry mountain winds he called home in Henning, Colorado—filled his head, and for a moment he caught a flash of scent that stabbed at his insides, striking him like a physical blow. It was familiar and yet mouthwateringly different, and he stopped in the center of the sidewalk, his narrowed eyes scanning Purity's bustling Main Street, struggling to discern its source. He stood there gripped in a knot of panic, stunned, while his chest heaved from the force of his breaths. But there was no sweet, surprising face from his past. No big, luminous eyes blinking back at him in stunned recognition. No tender mouth curved in a shy, soft-focused smile. No one that he could pick out in the chaotic swarm of townspeople that nudged his memory, taking him back to a time he'd done his best to forget.
Blowing out a rough breath, he accepted that it was just his mind playing tricks on him, which seemed to be happening more and more these days. He thought he'd shoved that period of his life into an impenetrable mental vault, locking it away forever, but the damn awakening was screwing with his sanity, making him remember things, and people, that were best left forgotten.
And yet isn't she the very thing that you crave?
"Not going there," he rasped under his breath, pissed at himself for letting his imagination get the better of him. Forcing the wave of unwanted memories from his mind, he set off again down the crowded sidewalk, while the edgy, restless need continued to slither beneath his skin. He knew its source—knew from exactly where it sprang, but there wasn't anything he could do about it. The ancient Merrick blood within his body was coming alive inside him, and that meant only one thing:
His days were numbered.
Darkness was knocking on his door, but it wasn't Riley's life that hung in the balance. It was his soul.
Not that he'd done anything so stupid as to make a deal with the devil—though there'd been times over the years when he'd been tempted. At one point, he'd have been willing to do anything for a chance, the opportunity, to rid himself of the blackness festering within him. A toxic, destructive darkness that had formed the shape of his entire life since the age of seventeen, sculpting the years like an artist manipulating clay.
You're so full of bullshit. It's not the darkness twisting you up inside—it's your weakness. It's knowing that you won't be able to handle it when it hits.
Choking back the graveled curse that threatened to erupt from his mouth, Riley shoved his hands into the pockets of his jeans, while the gusting bursts of sea wind whipped his hair around his face. Despite the violent weather, Purity, Washington, was a beautiful place, caught between the rugged, majestic beauty of a towering autumn forest and a sheer rock face that looked out over the thrashing fury of the Pacific Ocean. On any other day he'd have been captivated by the town, but then this wasn't any other day. He and Kellan Scott had just arrived in Purity that morning, their purpose to retrieve the Dark Marker they believed was buried here in the sleepy little seaside community. His sister, Saige, had only just finished deciphering the ancient, coded map that gave directions to the Marker's location the day before, and Riley had immediately insisted that he be the one to go after the powerful cross. His brother and sister had argued like crazy, but in the end Riley had won with the sheer stubborn force of his will, as well as the threat that he'd simply leave. Just drive out of Henning without telling them where he was headed, if they didn't shut up and let him get out of there.
He couldn't have stayed. His awakening was coming on too strong, which meant that he was, more than likely, already being hunted by a monster. A Casus. One of the ancient enemies of the Merrick, and the very things that were causing the awakenings to begin. With each Casus who escaped from the holding ground that had imprisoned the vile race for over a thousand years, it was believed that the primal blood would awaken within a descendant of the Merrick clan. And though he'd fought it, Riley's turn had finally come. Now he would join the fight against an unholy evil, and hope like hell that he was able to take at least one of those bastards down before he…
No, he didn't want to think about that. About where he was headed. He needed to focus on the coming battle, so that he could destroy the Casus coming after him. That was why they needed the Dark Markers— beautiful ancient crosses that could be used not only as a talisman for protection, but which were the only known weapons capable of killing a Casus's soul and sending it straight to hell. God only knew how many of the things were already on his trail, and Riley had no intention of hanging around Henning, where they could pick off the locals one by one just to mess with his mind. That was how the bastards worked, and he'd seen just how evil they could be when the first escaped Casus had gone after his brother toward the end of the summer. It had killed four women in Henning alone, two of them women Ian had dated. Ian had finally used the first Dark Marker that Saige had found to kill the sadistic son of a bitch, but Riley knew his brother was still learning to cope with the unsettling fact that he was now more Merrick than man.
Riley wished he could accept the primal blood that flowed through his veins as easily as Saige had, but he was too much like Ian. A wry smile twitched at the corner of his mouth with the thought. He could well imagine Ian's reaction to the comparison. Whereas his brother had mostly lived a hard, dangerous life, Riley had done his best to keep himself on the straight and narrow, like a goddamn Boy Scout. And yet they were more alike than Ian realized.
Though his brother and sister didn't know it, Riley had lived in fear of his awakening for years. Since he was seventeen. Since he'd turned his back on the life he'd wanted, casting it aside. That was why, from the moment he'd realized the awakenings were actually coming, he'd been consumed by thoughts of the past. It was pointless and stupid, he knew. Regret wasn't going to save him, and it sure as hell wasn't going to ease the seething, visceral hunger scraping him raw, tearing at his insides like so many claws. But the two events went hand in hand, impossible to separate. Facing his awakening inevitably made him think about the things that had happened so long ago. The circumstances that had changed his life.
That had shaped him into the man he'd become.
But there was nothing to be done. He couldn't avoid his future, and he couldn't go back and change what had come before. The very fact that he was awakening was proof that he'd made the right choices all those years ago, no matter how painful they'd been. No matter how angry they'd made him. No matter the cost. Or how they'd hurt the people who'd cared about him.
Still, he lifted his nose to the air, searching for that scent again, but the violent wisps of the sea-scented breeze were too strong, and he finally gave up.
"It wasn't real," he grunted to himself, shaking his head as if to clear it of an alcohol-induced fog. Spotting Kellan coming from the opposite direction, he sidestepped a group of mothers chattering around a circle of strollers, and made his way beneath the awning of a brick-faced hardware store, stepping out of the harrowing wind as he waited for the Watchman to reach him. They'd split up not long after arriving in town, Riley heading to find out what he could about the land where they believed the cross was buried, and Kellan to check the local news database to see if any strange happenings or disappearances had recently been reported. They were almost positive that the Casus, who had briefly held possession of the mysterious maps a few weeks before, hadn't been able to decode them. But they weren't taking any chances. Though they didn't understand why, they knew the Casus were as desperate to get their hands on the Dark Markers as they were.
"Find anything?" he asked the Watchman as he neared.
The younger man shook his head, the sunlight glinting like copper off the deep, auburn strands of his hair, his blue-green eyes glittering with an ever-present spark of mischief. Kellan Scott was a brawny, muscular bastard, which was why he'd been sent along with Riley to find the Marker. As one of the Watchmen—shape-shifters whose job it was to watch over the ancient nonhuman clans—Kellan and his unit had broken with tradition and stepped in to help in the Merrick's fight against the Casus. Like his brother, Kierland, Kellan's inner beast was a wolf, and though Riley had yet to see him shift, he had no doubt that the twenty-six-year-old lothario could be lethal when he needed to be.
"What about you?" Kellan asked, while two early twentysomethings strolled past, their bright gazes eyeing them with obvious appreciation. Kellan flashed the blonde a wicked, come-and-get-me smile, before Riley glowered them both away.
"The land where Saige told us to search is owned by the same woman who owns that café we saw when we came into town, out by the cliffs. Her name's Millicent Summers," he said, when Kellan finally took his odd-colored gaze off the blonde's ass and looked back toward Riley's scowl.
"Millicent. Mmm…sounds sweet. Let's go meet her," the Watchman murmured, grinning as he waggled his brows.
"I think Millicent might be a little old for you," he grumbled, trying to reroute the direction of Kellan's thoughts. The guy's mental compass seemed to be permanently pointed toward sex.
Kellan's smile twitched at the corner as he lifted his shoulders. "Women are like wine, Ri. They only get better with age."
Riley narrowed his eyes. "Do you remember one word of the lecture Kierland gave you before we left the compound?" he demanded in a gritty slide of words, while Millicent Summers's name kept looping through his brain, driving him mad, same as it'd been since he'd first heard it from the "Chatty Cathy" at the land registry. Millicent had been the name of Hope Summers's aunt, but he knew it was just coincidence. One more thing to mess with his mind. Fate couldn't possibly be that cruel. Jesus, he needed to get a grip before his useless obsession with the past made him lose his focus.
He couldn't afford to be distracted, damn it. He needed to stay sharp. Alert. Not walking around in a daze, searching for things that weren't even there.
"Yeah, I remember the lecture," Kellan offered with a tired sigh, pulling Riley's mind back to the conversation. The Watchman lifted his right hand and crossed his heart. "Will it make you feel better if I solemnly swear to keep my filthy paws off the lady, no matter how tempting she is?"
Shaking his head at the idiot's teasing, he grunted, "Come on. We might as well go check the place out." They headed down the crowded sidewalk, and though Riley was aware of the female attention they were drawing, he ignored it. He could honestly say that he'd never had trouble finding a woman when he wanted one. He wasn't being arrogant about it—it was just the way that it was. The only difference was that now, when he needed one, he… couldn't. Couldn't act on the offers. Even if a miracle occurred and he found what he craved, he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Not with at least one Casus on his trail, hunting him down, looking for ways to hurt him, while waiting for him to fully awaken…and more Casus most likely on their way. Until Riley had fed and the Merrick blood within his body had gained full power, they would bide their time. Feed from his flesh too early, and he wouldn't give the monsters the power charge they needed to bring back more of their kind from the holding ground they'd named Meridian.
"If you don't want to draw more attention than we already are," Kellan drawled, "then you need to loosen up, Ri."
"Not gonna happen," he muttered, scanning the crowd, bitterly aware that he was subconsciously searching for a thick, healthy fall of long, chestnut-colored hair. The flash of bright, topaz-colored eyes. He struggled to let go of his tension, to find the smooth, easy well of calm that he'd mastered over the years, but it wasn't there.
"Seriously," Kellan rumbled, slanting him a worried glance. "I can feel the vibes pouring off you, man. It's getting bad."
"I'll handle it," he shot back, unsure whether Kellan was talking about his awakening… or his growing sexual frustration, not that it made a difference. He had no intention of discussing either with the cocky Watchman.
A smiling brunette strolled across their path, flashing a lip-glossed smile in his direction, and Riley looked away. Again. Same as he'd been doing for weeks now.
"Look, it's obvious you don't have trouble attracting women," Kellan murmured, while they turned left at the next corner. "So just pick one and get laid already. And I'm not the only one who's thinking it. Everyone back at Ravenswing is saying the same damn thing."
"It's not a case of just picking one," he said, slipping one hand beneath his jean jacket to readjust his shoulder holster. He'd been out of uniform since finally taking some long overdue leave the week before, and it felt strange. Like a part of him was missing. Thankfully his job as a sheriff enabled him to travel with his piece, so he hadn't been forced to leave his gun behind when they'd left Ravenswing, the Watchmen compound where his brother and sister were now living.
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16 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
You will need to join a Kumbaya circle after reading this series....
By Amazon Customer
Hi! Are you in a good mood and wish you weren't? Or better yet, is someone you hate in a good mood and you wish you could ruin their day? Then look no further than The Primal Instinct series by Rhyannon Byrd as a surefire method of sending someone into a deep depression and looking for the nearest supplier of Prozac.
Riley Buchanan was left in a difficult position when his older brother left home, leaving him with his obsessed mother and younger sister. His mother's fanatical belief in their family's lore eventually led to him agreeing to her impassioned pleas to volunteer for a spiritual journey that would help show him what the future held. What he saw that night when he was seventeen frightened him so badly that it shattered his soul and caused him to turn from the only girl he ever loved.
Now over a decade later Riley is led to the one place he hoped never to find. The current home of the woman whose loss has haunted him nearly every day of his frozen existence. Hope Summers has been trying to keep her life on track since the end of her mockery of a marriage and the last thing she was prepared to see was Riley Buchanan walking through her door. Needless to say, she's not excited to see him but what she can't deny is that her body has come to life for the first time in over a decade. She's determined to sample what she missed out on all those years ago but only this time she will not hold out hope for a happily ever after.
While Hope may have decided to pursue Riley with her eyes wide open, she could never have imagined the horrors that followed him to her town of Purity, Washington. Nor could she have imagined that one of the Markers was buried on her land, making her a target long before Riley ever showed up at her door. Riley is determined to protect Hope, just as he's always done, be it from the psychotic fiend from hell or the flesh hungry Casus who have been greedily awaiting the moment he sinks his fangs into her body and awakens the Merrick within. Despite all his many, many attempts to be honorable and leave Hope untouched, he can't resist her and chooses her to awaken his Merrick for the first time. Their passion is exquisite, but in the morning the knowledge of what the future holds is enough to force him from her arms and into the fight alongside his brother. With unlikely allies by his side, and with his brother's help, Riley searches for the strength to take control of his destiny and choose his own future, hopefully with the woman he's always loved by his side.
While I thought the first book in this series, Edge of Hunger started off great, this series has steadily deteriorated before my eyes as I dragged myself through the following books. These characters take fighting the inevitable to new heights. The word stubborn does not do justice to their thick skulls.
The level of insecurity in these books was astronomical. These siblings really, REALLY hated themselves and only by the grace of God did they manage to find someone worthy enough (or someone with enough free time on their hands) to cajole, whine, badger, hound, nag, and and or threaten them into loving relationships. I know these siblings wish their one-in-a-billion "chosen one" status had been a MegaBucks lottery win instead but suck it up, get over it and move on, people! They could have given any morose vampire a run for their money in the doom and gloom department.
I liked how the first book, Edge of Hunger started. Oh my God was it hot. It was rough, with some cervix pounding imagery I could have done without, but it was seriously smoking hot. Since in the beginning Ian and Molly were only connected during dreamscapes, Ian was able to enjoy himself without the weight of the world on his shoulders, instead of staring at himself with self loathing - as he does throughout the rest of the book. All the characters from these books like their sex dirty and rough and since these desires make them unnatural in their eyes, we are subjected to Catholic sized guilt trips that really killed any enjoyment I might have gotten because right after coitus they are aghast and run away as if the hounds of hell are after them.
The worldbuilding that started off in Edge of Hunger really got the ball rolling and this series is a prime example of an author building up an incredible world then killing it off with obnoxious attitudes. My favorite of the three books is definitely Ian and Molly's book (Book 1), mostly for the worldbuilding and incredible chemistry between them. Because Rhyannon Byrd was able to start off with two smoking hot sex scenes and then fill the rest of the book with some fabulous storytelling, I wasn't (too) bothered when Ian began moaning that he was not worthy and wanted to end it all. I thought the Merrick creature (picture what Michael from the movie Underworld becomes) lying dormant inside Ian was a very interesting premise and a welcome change of pace from all the other beings littering the paranormal market out there today. I just wish someone could have tied Ian to a bed and let Molly have her way with him.
While Ian may have started this pity train, Saige and Michael from Edge of Danger, Book 2 in the Primal Instinct series, kicked it into high gear. While it too had a very interesting story, by the end of it all I wanted to do was curl up on a couch and eat bonbons while looking at pictures of dead family pets. Originally I had blamed my depression on a premenstrual influx of emotion but now I know better. I blame these books.
Saige believes since her brothers all turned away from her and her mother that she is unworthy and brings only pain and danger to those she loves. So she is definitely not worthy of Michael Quinn, the handsome Raptor shapeshifter who comes to her aid. So of course she escapes him in order to protect him and gets herself caught by the Casus who have been hunting her down, both for the power charge she will provide when she is consumed by one of them, and for her knowledge of the Markers that have been hidden around the world. Of course Quinn is severely butthurt by this and thinks back to when he lost the love of his life and can't help comparing the two of them. Quinn has loved and lost and has decided he never again wants to know the pain love brings. Because of his unnatural sexual urges and possessiveness that is inherent in Raptor shapeshifters, he knows he is definitely not worthy of someone as beautiful as Saige Buchanan, so he tries to hold out against her to the BITTER end.
While Book 2 still had a lot of worldbuilding to offer, it wasn't able to fill up the book as good as it did in the first book, so the mindnumbing inner fights and delusions Saige and Quinn suffer through stand out much more prominently in this book. Though this book gets a serious thumbs up from me for the descriptions of Micheal's wings. I heart wings.
Though I was dreading it, I picked up the 3rd book, Edge of Desire. Why, you ask? Because after reading the previous books I felt it was all I deserved.
Riley Buchanan was the absolute worst. He made me want to drop myself off a cliff just to end the pain. Riley was a boring, sad, morose fruitcake and I wanted to pass him a couple of white pills and tell him to call me when he runs out. Because of his vision quest he thinks he's going to become a monster who will hurt those he loves so he holds out As. Long. As. Possible. Even after he finally takes blood from Hope and awakens his Merrick, he still holds out when confronted by a horde of hungry Casus and tries to hold them off with a gun, his fist, heck, I think he would have tried throwing his shoes at them before he would have allowed the Merrick to overtake him.
Hope was a nice woman but I found her constant attempts to get Riley into the sack pathetic. I wanted to rent her the movie, "He's Just Not That Into You." The thing with her ex husband, while sad, was a useless attempt to fill up the book, IMHO. Edge of Desire was almost constant back and forth conversations between Hope and Riley about why they could never be, and Riley and Kellan's riveting (sarcasm) conversations while digging for the third Marker. The worldbuilding was pretty much already set in place and I felt like the chemistry between the hero/heroine was absent. We get more introductions to some more ambiguous bad guys turned good guys and poor Kellan gets used and abused.
I had a big problem with bringing some of the bad guys over to the good side. In Book 2, Quinn is severely tortured by this group called the Collective and one of their leaders is a self righteous *expletive deleted* named McConnell. He allows his men to rape and torture women to death and I didn't want him around. I didn't want him helping. And I will never trust him.
And then I come to the women of this series. Ugh. No pride, whatsoever. They throw themselves at the men as if they were The Beatles during the height of Beatlemania. I felt like bring them in for big group hug, and then gathering them into a Kumbaya circle and having them say, "I'm worth it" over and over.
Now, is this series really all that bad? Well, everything is subjective but for me I hate whiney characters. If there had been one with a more positive outlook I would have been so much happier. But instead these are really dark and violent books that have equally dark and violent protagonists, while the antagonists are all torture happy and appropriately scary. On the plus side there was a lot of fascinating worldbuilding that I enjoyed and I felt the chemistry between Ian and Molly was really good. I liked Molly before she made the decision to follow Ian to the ends of the earth and I really liked Ian before he went all gung ho for death. And I must not forget to mention Quinn's hot Raptor wings. Despite all my complaints, I will read the next batch of books and even though I hope they won't be as morose as the previous books, I know they probably will be. But I know I will be reading them when they come out because I'm a sucker who likes to read. I'll give (Book 3) Edge of Desire 2 stars, (Book 2) Edge of Danger 3 stars, and (Book 1) Edge of Hunger 4 stars.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
3.5 stars - Riley fights his dark desires as Byrd completes her edge triology
By melindeeloo
Edge of Desire closes out Rhyannon Byrd's trilogy with final Buchanan sibling, Riley's story. Unlike younger brother Ian (Edge of Hunger), Riley hasn't been in denial of his fate - Riley has seen visions and knows that he will lose himself to the Merrick (the beast that lurks within Riley) - so Riley has lived his life on the straight and narrow and has sacrificed happiness and love with the one woman he can never forget. But as the Merrick awakens, fate of course steps in and throws that woman, Hope, in Riley's path. Now that she's near, Riley is trying hard to fight his intense need for Hope and to hold on to his noble intentions, because succumbing to his dark desire will only put Hope in the dangerous path of his sadistic enemies, the evil Casus, and the monster within Riley as well.
Though there were some interesting variations in the formula of the previous stories, Edge of Desire was my least favorite of the books in this series (Edge Of Danger was the best):
The good: For the first time in the series we discover that there are also female Casus and also a first, the good guys gain an ally on an unexpected front - from the bloodline of the Casus themselves. Another plus, we didn't get as much of the first hand sadistic violence of the bad guys. I was happy the Byrd realized that by the third book, readers `get' that the bad guys are really bad and didn't feel the need to bludgeon us with more `in the moment' torture of the Casus' nasty `feeding' habits.
The not so good: Byrd sets up some background conflicts that had interesting potential (the wolf shifter watchman in peril, Hope's wacko ex husband) but resolves them without taking advantage of that potential. But my biggest problem with Edge of Danger was that I really didn't like the starring pair. Riley was just too self-flagellating to allow me to get attached to him, which was a bit disappointing because through the series we have been told that Riley is the saint, an honorable protector - the Riley we see here doesn't fit that image at all, even when taking into account Riley's emerging beast. I also found the attraction/rejection polka between Riley and Hope to be a bit tiresome. Though I am sure that it was intended to build the sensual tension between the pair, it just didn't work for me and I also found myself getting mad at Hope for repeatedly giving Riley the power to keep hurting her.
Edge of Desire wraps up the trilogy with the Buchanon siblings but leaves the background story open with the possiblity of more books. Hopefully, if the series continues, Byrd will leave the Merricks in the background and move on to the Watchmen, Sean and the Casus trying to avoid his evil fate, because they were far more interesting than the leads.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
This should have been much, much better
By Countess Chocula
I love reading Rhyannon Byrd, so I picked up all three Edge books at once and thought I could settle in for a nice thriller along with some hot sex scenes. Gah, what a letdown Edge of Desire was.
To be fair, I messed up and started reading the series in the wrong order, so there was a lot of world and creature building that I missed, although I'm fairly sure that reading the books in any order gives you enough information that they can be read as stand-alones. The Casus and the Merrick were explained well enough to figure out what in heck Riley's problem was.
And there's the crux of the matter. Riley has issues - big whopping, irritating, want-to-smack him issues. He is one of the whiniest heroes I've read in ages and not one I'd expect from Byrd. As if that wasn't bad enough, we're subjected to his mate, Hope, who has buckets of her own issues. Picture the story: angst, violent fight, angst, violent fight, angst, finally hero figuring out he's not as bad as he thinks he is. Good grief, I lost count of the many times Riley tucked tail and ran away from Hope because he was scared. The final fight scene lacks something; sure, there's the whole, "will Riley's Merrick come out in time, can he find the cross in time to win the battle." But the Casus seemed beatable without all that. Not a lot of tension.
So what's good about Edge of Desire? Well, even with their angsty-ness, Hope and Riley are definitively drawn characters. You may not like them, but Byrd still manages to make them believable, which I think could only happen in the fantasy genre. The sex scenes are okay; some are sort of ooky but really, I got tired of hearing how big Riley's equipment was.
There really wasn't much to recommend about Edge of Desire; I was more interested in the good guy Casus than I was in seeing Hope and Riley get together. While I usually enjoy this kind of story, this book just seems flat and like Byrd just wanted to get Riley's story out so she could get to one of the more interesting characters' stories. If you're a Byrd fan who has to try the Edge books, I recommend one of the other books first. This one is just not up to her usual standards, in my opinion.
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