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Shifting Shadows

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Shay has always enjoyed the quiet of the forest at night, hunting his prey and living his simple life. He feels more at home in his wolf figure than his human skin. He loves the smell of leaves below his paws, the winks of stars from the sky above the forest. Shay couldn't ask for more.

But he must always be careful... The world does not want his kind: Shapeshifters. Once a proud race protecting the realm of Feye, now slaves or outcasts: barely hanging onto the fringes of the cold and cruel world of Feye politics. When he is captured and sent into slavery, he must use all of his wits to find a way out or suffer a fate far worse than death.

But something else looms in the shadows, ready to fall upon the weakened Feye and control all living -and dead- beings of the realm. Will Shay rise above this doom? Or fall to it?All Rights Reserved

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