Secret City: A Shifter City Story

By Sophie Oliver

Mark has searched for proof of the myths and legends around Oak Grove. He finally finds someone to tell him first hand stories, Layla, a woman who purports to be a werepanther. Together, Mark gets all the first hand experience he could ever need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Quixerotic
• Release date: Jan 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781005072315

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Secret City

Sophie Oliver

Copyright 2022 by Quixerotic

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Secret City

A Shifter City Story

by Sophie Oliver

When she pulled away, he saw the black claws tipping her fingers. Come with me, she said. You wanted to see living proof. Now you will.

Thanks for doing this, Mark said, arranging his notebook and the recorder on the table. A bird, which strangely decided to make its territory the one birch tree outside a heavily trafficked coffee shop, objected harshly to the latest arrivals, trilling at them nonstop. Across the table, Layla eyed the bird with equal contempt while blowing on her drink. Mark expected something entirely different in Layla’s appearance than what she turned out to be. A woman purports to turn into a cat sometimes, and it puts a certain image in the mind, something dainty and overtly feminine. Layla did move and sit with the grace of someone trained in movement, but nothing so schmaltzy as lounging limp over the back of a chair or batting at a ball of yarn.

She made a loud, short whistle through her teeth. The bird went silent. She smiled, Sometimes you have to speak the language. And of course, I’m happy to participate. I’ve very curious what will happen.

Mark stirred from his ruminations on his subject’s physique, How do you mean?

Layla shrugged, the weight of her muscular shoulders rolling with an ease that seemed supernatural in itself. She was taller than Mark, six foot one to his six feet, and built like a semiprofessional weight lifter. At least, that’s how it seemed at