Read on for an exciting excerpt from "Bayou moon," a novel of The Edge by Ilona Andrews now available from Ace Books.

Kate Daniels works for the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid, officially, as a liaison with the mercenary guild. Unofficially, she cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to handle -- especially if they involve Atlanta's shapeshifting community. When she's called in to investigate a fight at the Steel Horse, a bar on the border between the territories of the shapeshifters and the necromancers, Kate quickly discovers there's a new player in town. One who's been around for thousands of years -- and rode to war at the side of Kate's father. This may be too much even for Kate and Curran, the Beast Lord, to handle. Because this time Kate will be taking on family ....