9th Life: Volume 1 (The Naming of Legends) - Softcover

Proceeds from the sales of 9th Life go to Good Mews no-kill cage-free cat shelter. The tale of an exiled Ailuro is now helping cats find their way home. Goodmews.org

Zookeeper Skyler Ashcraft prefers scorpions to skirts, but flirting with the feral gains new meaning when she unwittingly drugs a feline shapeshifter. The same rules should have applied: Approach with caution and the near-impossible keep your hands to yourself.
Bastian is uniquely dangerous among the Ailuro, a people capable of much more than shapeshifting. The way his anger psychically endangers others earned him exile, as self-imposed as mandated. It's the reason he should leave Sky alone. If only it was that simple.
When the predator becomes prey, the hunt is on. If it's truly survival of the fittest, they can't hope to win.
The zoo's primary rule of expect the unexpected hardly prepared Sky for this, and in the end, they find there are worse things to lose than your life, and nothing they won't risk for love.

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. Member of the RWA and serves as Membership Chair of the Georgia Romance Writers