title: Dancers in the Dark
author:  Charlaine Harris 
description: Charlaine Harris is the author of several New York Times bestselling series, including the Sunday Times bestselling Sookie Stackhouse series, now filmed for TV as True Blood. She is married, with children, and lives in Arkansas.
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  # Charlaine Harris
  
  
  # Dancers In The Dark - Night's Edge
  
  
    
  
  
  ### Charlaine Harris
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ACKNOWLEDGMENT
  
  
  
  
  
  My thanks to dancers past and present
  
  
  Coco
  
  
  
  
  
  Ihle, Larry Roquemone, Jo Dierdorff,
  
  
  Shelley Freydont and the very helpful Molly McBride.
  
  
  Special thanks go to Doris Ann Norris,.
  
  
  reference librarian to the stars, who can look up
  
  
  the inner dimensions of a sarcophagus
  
  
  faster than I can whistle "
  
  
  
  
  
  Dixie
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Rue paused to gather herself before she pushed open the door marked both Blue
  Moon Entertainment and Black Moon Productions. She'd made sure she'd be right
  on time for her appointment. Desperation clamped down on her like a vise: she
  had to get this job, even if the conditions were distasteful. Not only would
  the money make continuing her university courses possible, the job hours
  dovetailed with her classes. _Okay, head up, chest out, shoulders squ