To everybody Harley is a jokester but deep down he is alone. His best friend is in love and all Moon knows is Joy. He is happy for his friend but he's missing something. And he's felt like this since he died and came back to life thanks to Trisha. Victoria has lost her family and made something of herself with no help from anybody. She is trying to move on from a traumatic event from her ex, but can she survive the gorgeous man who saves her and her best friend from harm.

Kidnapped by members of Mercile Industries, the pharmaceutical company that was shut down six years ago for their illegal experiments on New Species, Paige Evans wakes within the confines of a testing facility as one of their prisoners. They believe her to be the daughter of an elusive double agent. A threat that could expose Mercile's most valuable research to the NSO. When the infiltrator's identity is compromised, Paige discovers a terrible truth: the woman she believed her mother to be is a lie. Now, threatened as leverage in exchange for classified NSO information, Paige is forced to endure captivity with the other prisoners until her mother gives in--or face termination at the hands of their most lethal test subject: X-013. But something far more sinister lurks deep within the compound, and as Paige struggles to survive the horrible trials as a test subject, she uncovers a threat to New Species that could potentially destroy them all. **Yes, my first New Species fanfiction ever!** Please review, comment, send the love-whatev! Any feedback is appreciated :) Note: All rights and original characters from the New Species series belong to the awesome Laurann Dohner. "Shield" is set in Dohner's world and written purely for my own entertainment -- and I hope yours as well.