Tava has lived with her adopted father in Five Springs
Village since her birth; he had been a scribe, drawing up
contracts for the Alders who run the village. Those
contracts were usually ones that involved the Shifterai;
shifter men who arrived in warbands looking for work and
were often used for eradicating an area of bandits. The
Shifterai were people that Tava feared because of the
stories told to her by her mother of her own abduction by
such people.
Now her father is dead. He was killed by bandits and
unknowingly avenged by the Shifterai. Tava, who had been
stalking the bandits, returns home only to find that she
will soon have no home. The Alders of the village plan to
take away everything that was her father's and deny that he
ever claimed her as his.
Kodan, Shifterai leader of the warband arrives and in
negotiating to remove the bandit threat from the village
manages to save Tava's property. His stipulation is that
she is part of the deal and must go with the warband to the
SHIFTING PLAINS. After witnessing a tiger stalking the
bandits and knowing it was her, Kodan believes she belongs
with the Shifterai.
With the horrors of her mother's stories does she dare go
with them? She finds she must after a few of the younger
village men attack the only home she has ever known. She
goes with a back plan of escape and slowly learns that
these people are far from being the evil men that she had
grown up hearing about. In fact once they hear of her
mother's plight they plan to search for this clan to make
sure they no longer exist.
SHIFTING PLAINS is an amazingly fresh paranormal. The
shifter world which Kodan brings Tava has touches of a
Native American feel to it, mixing with magic and amazing
shifters who are not limited to one form but earn status
with many. The characters are fresh and vivid, with Ms.
Johnson creating just enough conflict to spice up the
oncoming romance without overdoing it. I cannot wait to
read more of this storyline.
Centuries before the time of the Sons of Destiny, a female shapeshifter became the leader of the people of the Shifting Plains... Tava Ell Var never really knew her mother, but she did know her tragic fate at the hands of a band of cruel shapeshifters-a history set down by Tava's father as a warning about life on the Shifting Plains. But after her father is murdered, Tava encounters a Shifterai warband fighting to rid the Plains of the terrorizing bandits Shifterai leader Kodan Sin Siin is sympathetic to Tava's suffering, but he's determined to bring the wary young woman to the Plains. Because he knows her secret: She, like he and his men, is a shapeshifter. Once she joins them, he knows that she will see for herself the true fate that awaits her on the Plains, and most of all, lose her fear of his people. And, in time, he knows she will find her place is in their fight-and by his side.
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