"I'm gone now, but I'm still very near. Death can never separate us. Each time you feel a gentle breeze, it's my hand caressing your face. Each time the wind blows, it carries my voice, whispering your name. When the wind blows your hair ever so slightly, think of it as me pushing a few stray hairs back in place. When you feel a few raindrops fall on your face, it's me placing soft kisses. At night, look up in the sky and see the stars shining so brightly. I'm one of those stars, and I'm winking at you and smiling with delight. For never forget, you're the apple of my eye."
Mary M Green
Gibbs Carter is a troubled young boy who is grieving the loss of his grandfather, Jude. Being that the two were close, Gibbs felt like he had a part of his own heart ripped from him.
A few months go by after Judes passing, and something extraordinary happens to Gibbs. Gibbs has a dream about his grandfather. But it's nothing in the ordinary.
It was his grandfather reaching out to Gibbs behind his veil of death. Confused and frightened, Gibbs does not speak of this night and those that come after.
But as he grows older, his new sought ability grows stronger. And Gibbs doesn't learn how to control it until its far too late.
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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