The Waters and the Wild
core novel 2019 Elves on the Road
Record
| First published | 2019 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.91 (194 ratings, collected 2026-11-04) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781481484305 |
| Internal chronology | 9 |
Synopsis
Olivia is a deeply unhappy teenager whose parents are divorcing. Blake, a swimming star, takes an interest in her and invites her to join him and his family at Lake Endor, a century-old resort camp in the Adirondacks. Once she is there she begins to see that Blake is not who he seemed to be and that he has reasons of his own for wanting her at the lake. Something not of this world lurks beneath the lake, and the story asks whether Olivia will be dragged under or saved by her true friends.
Where it sits
- Universe: Elves on the Road
- Series: SERRAted Edge core; position 9 of 10 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Mercedes Lackey
- Author: Rosemary Edghill
Notes
- Also listed as a Bedlam's Bard novel; co-written with Rosemary Edghill. First published October 2019.
- From the series record (SERRAted Edge): Modern-day novels of elves who race cars and move among humans, set in the same world as the Diana Tregarde and Bedlam's Bard books.
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 SERRAted Edge: position 9 of 10: previous Silence (2016) · next Breaking Silence (2020)
- Internal chronology, within Elves on the Road: position 23 of 24: previous Silence (2016) · next Breaking Silence (2020)
Sources
- Mercedes Lackey official site: Elves on the Road universe
- Simon & Schuster (Baen hardcover, 1 October 2019)
- Mercedes Lackey official site
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