When the Bough Breaks

In this early SERRAted Edge novel, Mercedes Lackey and Holly Lisle bring the series’ hidden elven world into a story about children at risk and the adults who try to protect them. Human choices and supernatural conflict intersect as the elves’ long-standing presence becomes part of a modern struggle. Its publication follows Wheels of Fire and precedes the later Tannim books, making it the third step in the original sequence. Read in order to follow the series’ early development.