When Kiera was just a little girl, her mother always warned her about The Shadows. One day, Kiera and her mother are found. While her mother hides Kiera away, The Shadows take her mother into their custody, and never to be seen again. Did she survive, or did she perish by their hands?
Now, Kiera, and her dog Ocean, live with her Uncle Sam. She trains everyday, waiting for the day that The Shadows locate them. Her life is about as normal as it possibly can be for someone like her. Then, a transfer student from Russia, who goes by the name Gabriel, transfers to her school.
From the moment the first word leaves his mouth, Kiera's world starts to spiral uncontrollably. Her mind is always in a constant battle with itself. Can she trust him? Can she really trust anyone anymore? Secrets that she never thought were possible, are revealed. Each one adding another brick to the wall she's building around herself. Is there a possibility that her mother's still alive after all these years?
With a new name and new life, Nathan must learn to fit in at an Academy of the Feral Investigation Bureau, or risk being sent back to prison.
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Escaping prison was only the beginning for inmate C41. Now on the run and going by Nathan, he's enrolled in an American Academy for training agents and joins the Feral Investigation Bureau, charged with hunting down criminals and sending them to the same place he just escaped. But after learning how blurred the distinction is between feral and non-feral, Nathan is forced to flee with his sister and his boyfriend, only to discover their safe house hides a secret that might cost Nathan his freedom.
Content and/or Trigger Warning: sex and violence. [Note: failed suicide attempt]
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