Silver Silence (Psy-Changeling Trinity, #1; Psy-Changeling, #16)

by Nalini Singh

Silver Mercant did not do ridiculous things like ride a changeling bear. A big changeling bear with sharp hooked claws. Which was the reason she couldn’t quite understand why, a minute later, she was attempting to climb onto said bear’s back.

There are those who call me the bridge between disparate interests. I hope that is my legacy. That my children and my children’s children into the future become the bridge whenever violence and horror threaten the world. —From the private diaries of Adrian Bowen Kenner: peace negotiator, Territorial Wars (eighteenth century)