After an intense hunt goes horribly wrong, Castiel and Dean face of their most challenging battle yet: A powerful blow to the unspoken Bond connecting, testing them and exactly how deeply it runs.
In a new body, Graceless, Castiel is faced with the terribly reality she may never wield her angelic powers again and that she is now trapped in a very human body. Cas believes this changes everything she has come to know as real...
When Dean realizes that Castiel wasn't killed in the hunt that Team Free Will barely survive - that the essence that is Cas, is occupying a young human woman who strangely resembles Castiel's previous vessel - Jimmy Novak - Dean's feelings intensify. He knows now what is important, and that is Cas. Now, if only he could convince Cas that living life as a mortal isn't so bad... and that maybe he can even give her a few solid reasons that convince her t she is far more than a weapon to him.
When Cas is ambushed by a demon she doesn't instantly see, she is nearly victimized and killed. But at the last possible moment, Dean rushes in and struggles with the demon to save her. In the fray, Dean is badly injured and Cas is jolted by an earth shattering revelation: that while she has held a piece of Dean's humanity ever since she pulled him from Hell, Dean has had half of her Grace hidden in the depths of his soul. With this revelation comes more... Cas is forced from her new human vessel and jolted back into her true form, which is being held captive in a sinister plot against Heaven. With flashes of Cas' vision, Team Free Will gears up to go save the angel that had always saved them... but there's a question hanging in the air that no one really wants to ask: how do you save an immortal, celestial being that can burn your eyes out with a single glance?
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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