J.M. Snyder

Bitten as a teen, Caleb now suffers through a painful transformation from human to bobcat a few days each month. As a bobcat, he leaves behind his camp and fellow soldiers to explore the night. But a gunshot and the bright scent of fresh blood draws him to a clearing where he learns that he isn't the only one of his kind.<br><br>Wounded and hurt, Brance is a loner by nature, gruff and grumbling, who doesn't want anything to do with Caleb ... at first. The younger bobcat prevails, and starts to win Brance over, until they turn human again and find themselves on opposite sides of the American Civil War.

Under a Confederate Moon

It had been ten years ago,on a small farm in the western part of Virginia,that Caleb became other.Twelve at the time,armed with his pa’s shotgun and a pouch full of lead pellets,he sat with his back against the barn,the chicken coop ahead in his sights.A full moon hung over the land,expectant,casting a silvery gloom over the empty farmyard.Caleb’s parents were asleep;his ma didn’t like him out here with the gun,but his pa trusted him,said it’d make him a man.


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