You’ll be the death of him.
Word of the Kayaditi has spread, and it seems everyone
wants a piece of her. Sky longs to change the Maarjaara, to be free of their
expectations. But when she slips down a path that Bastian can’t follow, she’ll
find the treacherous climb back is littered with unimaginable truths and
unacceptable solutions.
~ Concerning Zookeepers ~
Working with the wild is a diverse calling. You learn to
scale heights and sedate hurts, rate scars and skin rats, celebrate life and
suffer loss. Animals are freer with their acceptance and adoration, also
fiercer when angered or threatened. All in all, it’s a safe way to live
passionately.
So Skyler thought.
Then he came. Lines were blurred.
~ Concerning Shapeshifters ~
Being a shapeshifter is to know life at its depths. The
initiated know the truth. It’s all One. Form is an idea. Ideas can be changed.
But all ideas are not equal.
So Bastian learned.
Then he found her. Lines were crossed.
Skyler Ashcraft never could have guessed the line crossed
when she drugged an injured lynx. What Bastian was didn’t even footnote in her
zookeeper’s manual. But it did nearly overshadow what he hid.
Secrets are like lines. They divide.
Before and After. Truth or Lie.
Life or Death.
NOTE: New Adult is a diverse genre. 9th Life contains no
sex, but the rest of the series does. Mild language throughout. (I get asked
about these things a lot so thought I'd share.)
There's all the difference between forgive and forget.
Nothing in Sky’s life looks the same since she met
Bastian-exiled Ailuro, love of her life, and his own worst enemy. The
revelations of the last few days, days that saw the end of Bastian’s ninth
life, what should have been his last, have rendered her life unrecognizable-but
survivable.
Bastian can’t claim the same.
He only lives with his sins in the hope of keeping Sky
out of Maarjaaran hands. His hope lies in hers. And she’ll do anything to save
him. Unfortunately, the only thing that might work demands far more from her
than simply giving in to the Maarjaaran marks.
NOTE: This is book 2 and won't make sense without first
reading 9th Life, book 1 of The Naming of Legends.
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Zookeeper-turned-author Wendy Beck is more accustomed to
wrestling gators than grammar. She has a conservation biology degree from
Oglethorpe University and learned a whole lot of hands-on studying killer
whales in Puget Sound, loggerhead sea turtles on Cumberland Island, and
everything else at Noah’s Ark in Locust Grove. She went on to serve as the
animal caretaker for Bear Hollow Wildlife Trail in Athens for four years before
moving back to the Atlanta area to care for the wildest animal of all—her son.
She lives with the love of her life and personal hero,
Mike, and can be found reading, writing, practicing kriya yoga, or creating
whimsy out of fondant… out of the Lego collection… or sometimes out of both.
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