b"Mercedes Lackey and Cody Martin discuss Breaking Silence, a new entry in the SERRated Edge urban fantasy series and the follow-up to Silence. Mercedes Lackey pioneered urban fantasy with her mythos of a modern world where elves and other magical creatures interact with ordinary humans. It's a world like our own, but one where magic works, yet is kept hidden\\u2014for the most part. Breaking Silence takes place in a small town in Maine where dark elves have long fed on human misery; and David Weber's Uncompromising Honor, Part 1."