The Phelidae – a  half-human, half-cat hybrid cosmically entrusted with covertly protecting  human life – has been forever hunted by the Pallas, a ritualistic order of  poachers lead by icy-veined opportunist Hiram Pallas and his unrelenting,  attention-starved son, Deacon.During their tribe’s ancient  endowment ceremony in the hallowed land of Valla, it is revealed that Thia  and her brothers Dae and Shai harness twice the powers expected, and one  only believed to be myth.  Overcome by jealousy, a petulant member betrays the  sacred tribe to its primordial foe, condemning them to exile, slavery, and  slaughter at the hand of the Pallas.  Their lives shattered and futures shrouded  in doubt and darkness, the three siblings flee into the unknown world with only  the instinct to survive.But adaptation into a  world both biologically and socially alien proves difficult for the  refugees, and they must constantly uproot and move on each time their  would-be assassins discover them.  They will find no home, and no peace,  until their desperate wandering leads them  to the remote, tranquil backwater  of Lionesta.  Here, finally, they are embraced and sheltered by an isolated  and close-knit, but strangely welcoming, community.But the people of  Lionesta hold secrets of their own, and it is not long before Thia, Dae, and  Shai are entangled in a conflict between their mysterious hosts and their  unnatural predators.  Through bonds forged in battle and blood, the three  Phelidae nomads are able to salvage a long lost hope that they’d found home  and the means to finally confront their huntsman, never to run again.

The Hunted  ISBN #978-0-615-49874-4