When a young man is lost in the woods after hunting, he struggles to find his way home. He's been in these woods a million times, but it's as if someone's flipped everything around. He's not afraid, he should be, though. Little does he know, he's not the only one looking for a meal.
They call it the Shadow Hound. No one has ever seen it, and lived to tell the tale.
People say that his name is Remnant. He lurks in the shadows behind every tree, every stone, every bush. Legend has it that if you see the Shadow Hound, you'll be dead by morning. Most people will try and run, but the Shadow Hound will always find you.
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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