Nathan Grier’s dark fae bounty looms overhead. As he faces the very real threat of becoming a slave to the bounty’s owner, his brother Jim uses his changeling abilities more and more trying to save him.<br><br>Every changeling throughout history turns evil once their powers manifest, meaning time may be running out for both of them as Jim nears True Awakening. Fae hunter and incubus Sasha Kelly is prophesized to save Nathan, but while Nathan has embraced his feelings for the other man, he fears their time together will be cut short -- either from his impending fate ... or Jim’s.

Changeling

There was no accompanying message scrawled at the top of the stairs this time, but when they got to the third floor they came to a much smaller landing as if they had reached an attic. Before them were two close-set doors. Here there was a long message up high and then separate words directly above each door.


Jim used his flashlight again, since it was darker up here without any windows, and started reading. “Look to the past and you move forward. Stay in the past and you stand still. Seek the future…and you shall fall behind?”


“Great,” Nathan said. “Poetic and all, but what’s it mean?”


“Well,” Sasha supplied with a shrug, “I’d say it means…you should learn from your past without dwelling on it, and if you think too much about the future, you forget to live today. It’s actually a pretty good lesson.”


“With a nasty consequence,” Nathan grumbled.


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