After the death of his wife, Arden Addams is looking for a new start. He wants to forget his past, and to do so, he moves to a new town, new school, new apartment. And what a great deal it was. A new semester, and a hardly used, fully furnished, dirt cheap apartment. The only problem? Everyone says said apartment is haunted by the ghost of Guinevere Hampton, the girl who not long ago lived -and died- there. But this English teacher believes ghosts belong in fiction, not reality. Will he be proved wrong?
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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