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

But Caleb brushed away the hands that clutched at him.“If I can walk,I don’t need to be taking up space here.You’ll need my bunk for someone else soon enough.”As the surgeon fussed with his shoulder dressing,Caleb asked again,“Where are the prisoners?”


“Just outside camp,”the surgeon replied.“They’ve been put to work,building an enclosure until we can send them on to Belle Isle.I suspect you might be fit for guard duty,so long as you just stand there looking mean and none of them try to escape.This shoulder’s still pretty bad.”


Caleb stumbled to the tent flap,out of the surgeon’s reach.“I’ll survive.”


Chapter 10