Night Shifters
Authors: Sarah A. Hoyt
Tags: #Fiction, #Fantasy, #General, #Contemporary, #Urban
NIGHT SHIFTERS
by Sarah A. Hoyt
There are those living secretly among us who have the power to change their physical form from that of a human to an animal, even animals thought to be mythical, such as dragons. Throughout out the ages, these shape shifters have come together to protect themselves from humans—and other shape shifters. One of those places they’ve come together is the town of Goldport, Colorado.
Draw One in the Dark
Someone—or something—has been killing shifters in large numbers, and the most ancient and powerful of shifters are converging on the Goldport to find the killer. According to their code, killing another shifter is a crime, no matter if the shifter was slaughtering humans. Now Kyrie Smith, a young panther shifter, must decide where she will stand: with her group or with humanity at large.
Gentleman Takes a Chance
Every one of us has the beast inside. But for Kyrie Smith, the beast is no metaphor. She can shape shift into a savage, black panther. Kyrie's lonely life changes forever while waitressing at a diner in Goldport, Colorado. Investigating frantic screams from the parking lot, Kyrie stumbles upon a blood-spattered dragon crouching over a mangled human corpse. The dragon shape-shifts back into her co-worker, Tom. Now Kyrie and Tom must discover if their human sides can survive or if a war among shifters will bring out the beasts in them—permanently.
Draw One in the Dark
Gentleman Takes a Chance
Night Shifters (omnibus)
Noah’s Boy
Darkship Thieves
Darkship Renegades
A Few Good Men
NIGHT SHIFTERS
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
Draw One in the Dark copyright ©2006 by Sarah A. Hoyt.
Gentleman Takes a Chance copyright ©2009 by Sarah A. Hoyt
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.
A Baen Books Original
Baen Publishing Enterprises
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ISBN: 978-1-4767-3651-8
Cover art by Tom Kidd
First Baen paperback printing, June 2014
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hoyt, Sarah A.
Night shifters / Sarah A. Hoyt.
pages cm
ISBN 978-1-4767-3651-8 (omni trade pb)
1. Dragons--Fiction.
2. Imaginary
wars and
battles--Fiction. I.
Title.
PS3608.O96N55 2014
813'.6--dc23
2014009917
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
eISBN: 978-1-62579-286-0
Electronic Version by Baen Books
DEDICATION
One of the amazing side benefits of becoming a professional writer is to be able to personally meet and become friends with people you’ve read and admired from afar.
I’d like to dedicate this book to David Drake, whose friendship, by itself, is enough to compensate for all the tribulations, sweat, and tears of a career in writing.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank Sofie Skapski, Kate Paulk, Pam Uphoff, and Lee McGregor for proofing and doing occasional continuity interventions. Without them, this story would be very difficult to follow. And I’d like to thank my husband, Dan Hoyt, who at a crucial point in the story came up and told me how much I was playing with his emotions and how he needed the rest of the story right then. It made finishing the book much more fun.