Mercedes Lackey Collections - Secret World Chronicle

Secret World Chronicle

• Book One: Invasion (2006) with Steve Libbey, Dennis Lee and Cody Martin
• Book Two: The Hunt (2007) with Steve Libbey, Dennis Lee and Cody Martin
• Book Three: World Well Lost (2009) with Dennis Lee and Cody Martin

The Secret World Chronicle is a series of "braided novels," based on characters and ideas created by Lackey and Libbey in an on-line role-playing environment, transposed into an entirely new setting. Although there are plans to set future works in different eras, Invasion is set in the present-day in a world where "metas" (short for metahumans, that setting's term for superheroes) first appeared during World War II and now play an important role in keeping the world safe. In Invasion, the world is invaded by a mysterious force of armored Nazi soldiers, some of whom are subsequently found not to be human.

While Secret World Chronicle is not set in the same world as the SERRAted Edge and Bedlam's Bard series, it does share certain elements in common with those books; one of Invasion's central characters, Victoria Victrix Nagy, is referred to as a Knight of Underhill.

The first book of The Secret World Chronicle began serialization in podcast form in September, 2006, read aloud by actors Adam Higgins and Laura Patterson. Beginning in 2007, the series continued to be read by voiceover artist Veronica Giguere. In Spring 2009, the series was sold to Baen Books with a publication date of 2011 for the first book, and 2012 for the second.