Nickie Daniels thought her weekend hike would be an escape — fresh air, sunshine, and her best friend by her side. But when a rattlesnake sinks its fangs into her leg, she’s thrust into a world she never knew existed.
Saved not by medicine but by transformation, Nickie discovers she’s not human at all — she’s Kitsune, a descendant of a race of shape-shifters thought to be myth. As she struggles to adjust to a new body, a new identity, and a secret community hidden in plain sight, she realizes her entire life has been a lie.
But the desert isn’t the only danger waiting for her. The rules of the Kitsune world are strict, the politics deadly, and someone wants to make sure Nickie never learns the truth about who — or what — she really is.
Her life has changed forever. The question is… can she survive it?
Perfect for fans of Patricia Briggs, Ilona Andrews, and Kelley Armstrong.
Melissa was born and raised in Arizona, she's spent her entire life living across the southern half of the state. She's found that, along with her husband and three children, she prefers the small towns and rural life to feeling packed into a city.
She started reading at a very young age, and her love for series started early, as the first real books she remembers reading is the Boxcar Children series by Gertrude Chandler Warner. Through the years she's found that there's little she won't read, and her tastes vary from westerns, to romance, to sci-fi / fantasy and Horror.