Silver Borne
core novel 2010 Mercy Thompson / Alpha and Omega
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.37 (114,673 ratings, collected 2026-08-27) |
| Page count | 352 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780441018192 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Silver Borne continues the Mercy Thompson series as Mercy takes on the task of returning a dangerous, forbidden fae book to the bookstore that once held it, only to discover the shop has closed and the book's rightful owners are harder to track down than expected. While navigating the complications of that errand, she is also drawn into helping her friend Samuel, a fellow shapeshifter, through a personal crisis serious enough to threaten his stability and risk drawing the attention of his powerful and formidable father. As Mercy tries to manage both situations, she finds herself pulled further into the fae community's internal politics, where the book's contents prove to matter more than she initially realized. Balancing loyalty to Samuel with the mounting danger surrounding the book, Mercy must move carefully among fae, werewolves, and old debts as the stakes of both problems continue to rise.
Where it sits
- Universe: Mercy Thompson / Alpha and Omega
- Series: Mercy Thompson core; position 5 of 14 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Patricia Briggs
Awards (verified)
- Endeavour Award (Best Book), 2011: nominated
Notes
- From the series record (Mercy Thompson): Urban-fantasy sequence starring shapeshifter Mercy Thompson in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Mercy Thompson: position 5 of 14: previous Bone Crossed (2009) · next River Marked (2011)
- Internal chronology, within Mercy Thompson / Alpha and Omega: position 9 of 20: previous Dead Heat (2015) · next Burn Bright (2018)
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Briggs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercy_Thompson
- OSFCI: Endeavour Award history (official)
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