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'Jax is on the run from his past. A shifter from the island of Rua, he is trapped on the mainland amongst the despised Off-islanders. Even worse, he’s in the military, with a less than exemplary military record. So when he is ordered to pack up his kit and is flown away in the middle of the night, he is in no position to argue. And it’s not as if he has any other place to go. 

'Ten years before, when Jax was just twelve years old and in bird-form high above his island home, it blew to smithereens, leaving him the only survivor, or so he believes.

'The mystery flight dumps him at a new base where he comes face to face with Matiu, the boyhood friend Jax thought was as dead as his previous life. The military want Jax for an important mission and Matiu wants Jax too, but for different reasons, but there is no way Jax is going to resurrect what took him ten long years to bury.

'As the pressure on him ramps up, Jax flees but is confronted by something more deadly than his nightmarish memories. To stop the other Islanders suffering the same fate as his people, Jax must finally face who and what he really is, and decide where he truly belongs.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Winter grips the Vales as the battles to rid the lands of the Tallon invaders build to a bloody climax. Geth, Ceannasai of a Ranger band, has already lost his closest friend Nyar to their swords, and is furious when Nyar’s sister Kyth appears on the eve of the final battle. 

'She should be safe in the Crags, where Geth promised Nyar she would remain, but Geth has something Kyth wants, something he has denied her, and when he denies her a second time, she refuses to leave.

'To add to the dangers, Kyth has a glass-heart with her, a lesser being with slurred speech and strangely hooded eyes. Glass-hearts are mysterious but there is one thing Geth is absolutely certain of: its presence at the battle-front imperils them all.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.