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?
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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.
