Jearl Rugh
ASIN: B078B5C3CC
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 272
With eyes wide open, I stare straight into the crystal and slip my thumb over the trigger. It urges me to press it. Yet, like the tug of the rudder of a ship leaving the shelter of the harbor, it steers me toward a future I cannot imagine, a destiny from which I may never return. Fate stranded two Splinterings of shape-shifters on Earth long before the human race took their first breath. With a tenuous truce forged between them eons ago, they've lurked on Earth's fringes for ages, staying separate and virtually unseen . . . until tonight. On the way to a romantic date at the beach, Zoe is chased by a man who exhibits most mystical behavior. Before her toes touch the sand, his very presence stirs the rediscovery of a truth she purged from her memory long before she understood the implications. She is an alien, a hybrid human/shape-shifter. As if it isn't shattering enough ...