content: I've read almost all Catherine Coulter's works. Until this book, I'd never read one I didn't absolutely love. But, The Edge is disappointing. The prelude was great. Written in first person, it captures the attention with a shared experience thousands of miles apart. After that, the story completely fell apart. The characters were flat and the dialogue stilted. There was promise that the book was coming back to life about 2/3 of the way through when the main characters are kidnapped and subsequently escaped. The book ends quite suddenly with a "formula" kind of ending. It looks as if there are many spin off stories to come from The Edge....hopefully, the characters and the story will be more interesting in the next installment.