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A Beautiful and Deadly Secret: A Beautiful and Deadly Secret
A Beautiful and Deadly Secret: A Beautiful and Deadly Secret
A Beautiful and Deadly Secret: A Beautiful and Deadly Secret
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A Beautiful and Deadly Secret is a complete duology and contains Other and Foxfire.

Confessing I'm a shapeshifter could get me killed.

I crave the forbidden rush of leaping from my bedroom window at night and transforming into an owl, but I could lose it all if anyone catches me. Shapeshifting can be a beautiful and deadly secret.

I'm Other. A half-pooka shapeshifter, to be exact. In the small town of Klikamuks, Washington, coming out as a paranormal person means staring down the barrel of a shotgun. I haven't even told my boyfriend, Zack, who I really am. And I'm hoping he will be the boy to take my virginity.

Worse, a pack of werewolves claims the national forest behind my house as their territory. Tensions in Klikamuks escalate into murder.

A serial killer is targeting Others like me.

On the hunt for clues, I meet Tavian, a sexy Japanese fox-spirit who challenges me to embrace my shapeshifting. He rivals Zack and makes me question everything.

Can I find the killer before he finds me, or will my secrets be the death of me?

***

My own magic might kill me.

One winter long ago, I watched my mother—a kitsune, or Japanese fox-spirit—leave me in the snow for the dogs.

But that's a memory buried beneath eleven years, and I've lived in America since then. I have my family, who adopted me, and my girlfriend, Gwen.

Now I'm back in Japan. My grandparents invited us to spend New Year's with them in Tokyo. I pretend to be happy for Gwen, but I can't shake the nightmares.

A faceless ghost haunts me, warning me that she is coming.

A gang of dog-spirits wants me dead. I'm the spitting image of their enemy, a kitsune named Yukimi.

Is Yukimi my birth mother who abandoned me? I never knew her true name, the key to a kitsune's magic. I don't even know my own true name.

And soon my magic threatens to kill me, tearing apart my half-human body.

I need to find the truth before it's too late.

 

LanguageEnglish
PublisherKaren Kincy
Release dateMay 26, 2023
ISBN9781737925187
A Beautiful and Deadly Secret: A Beautiful and Deadly Secret
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Karen Kincy

Karen Kincy writes books when she isn’t writing code. She has a BA in Linguistics and Literature from The Evergreen State College, and an MS in Computational Linguistics from the University of Washington. Karen is a PAN member of RWA. Find Karen on Twitter at @karenkincy Sign up for Karen's mailing list: http://eepurl.com/HeLSP

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