The Naming of Legends Series by Wendy Beck

~ 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... more~ 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.) less

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... moreThere'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. less

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. AUTHOR'S NOTE: Skybound will not make sense without reading 9th Life and The Forgotten. Sexual situations. Some language. (Paranormal New Adult)