At that point, her husband had the marriage annulled, and Charlotte turned her back on the Weird and made a life for herself in the Edge with the help of Éléonore, grandmother of Rose (heroine of book 1, married to Declan).

After Charlotte's ten years of service as a healer ended, she married a blueblood and lived a relatively happy life, right up until she was diagnosed as being barren. Charlotte was taken from her family early in her childhood and raised among the bluebloods of the Weird, where she was adopted by a powerful female healer soon developing into the most powerful healer in the Weird. His marriage is long since over, and he believes that he is destined to live and die alone. Richard has dedicated his life to eliminating the slavers. We met the second niece-Sophia, aka Lark-in book 2, and she plays critical role in this book. Richard lost two nieces to the slavers-one murdered and one emotionally damaged. The slave traders are the scourge of both the Edge and the Broken as they sweep in and either murder or enslave the inhabitants at will. He has been tasked by Declan (hero of book 1 and now an Adrianglian Duke) to identify the villains who are running the slave trading operation in Adrianglia.

Richard is the brother of Kaldar Mar, the hero of book 3. The slavers’ operation, however, goes deeper than Richard knows, and even working together, Charlotte and Richard may not survive.The fourth and final novel tells the story of Richard Mar (aka The Hunter) and Charlotte de Ney, a powerful Healer. So when his presence leads his very dangerous enemies to Charlotte, she vows to help Richard destroy them. Richard is a swordsman without peer, future head of his large and rambunctious Edger clan-and he’s on a clandestine quest to wipe out slavers trafficking humans in the Weird. Until Richard Mar is brought to her for treatment, and Charlotte’s life is turned upside down once again. After her marriage crumbles, she flees to the Edge to build a new home for herself. But even though she possesses rare magical healing abilities, her life has brought her nothing but pain. The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale-and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny…Ĭharlotte de Ney is as noble as they come, a blueblood straight out of the Weird.

Steel's Edge by Ilona Andrews