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A novellette set after Second Nature, focused on a different set of characters but involving some of the repercussions of the events of that novel. Humans who find out about the existence of the shapeshifting Wrasa are no longer automatically assassinated, but it’s a fragile peace and they still might be assassinated. Therefore, interspecies dating is still forbidden. Which makes it difficult when ER psychiatrist and coyote shifter Shelby falls for her human co-worker, ER nurse Nyla.
Shelby’s a flawed Wrasa, with the metabolism and enhanced senses but unable to shift at will, but still bound by the rules of the community. Still, given her lowly status, maybe no one will notice if she just goes on out on one date... (One incredibly awkward date, as Wrasa normally bring gifts of meat rather than flowers, Nyla’s chihuahua senses Shelby’s Wrasa nature and doesn’t like it one bit, Wrasa can’t see projected movies very well owing to their non-human vision, and they run into a pair of very suspicious fox shifters at the theatre.)
If Shelby tells Nyla her secret, she’ll be putting Nyla at risk and making herself look like a lunatic, as she can’t shift to prove it. But if she doesn’t, how can they ever have a real relationship?
Another nicely detailed and solidly enjoyable lesbian shifter story from Jae. Shelby’s enhanced senses and the Wrasa culture details make for a very fun story, and the central dilemma is convincing and not easily dealt with. I’m guessing Shelby and Nyla will turn up again or at least be heard from in the next book in the series, True Nature, as while this novelette resolved their romance, the larger obstacles are still at play by the end.
Manhattan Moon
Shelby’s a flawed Wrasa, with the metabolism and enhanced senses but unable to shift at will, but still bound by the rules of the community. Still, given her lowly status, maybe no one will notice if she just goes on out on one date... (One incredibly awkward date, as Wrasa normally bring gifts of meat rather than flowers, Nyla’s chihuahua senses Shelby’s Wrasa nature and doesn’t like it one bit, Wrasa can’t see projected movies very well owing to their non-human vision, and they run into a pair of very suspicious fox shifters at the theatre.)
If Shelby tells Nyla her secret, she’ll be putting Nyla at risk and making herself look like a lunatic, as she can’t shift to prove it. But if she doesn’t, how can they ever have a real relationship?
Another nicely detailed and solidly enjoyable lesbian shifter story from Jae. Shelby’s enhanced senses and the Wrasa culture details make for a very fun story, and the central dilemma is convincing and not easily dealt with. I’m guessing Shelby and Nyla will turn up again or at least be heard from in the next book in the series, True Nature, as while this novelette resolved their romance, the larger obstacles are still at play by the end.
Manhattan Moon
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Also I am dying to know: is she an artist with a single name, like Prince?
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Zoe is going to write an FF shifter story for the OutRight FF benefit anthology. It's a Protection, Inc. tie-in with a fashion designer dragon shifter who's a cousin of Lucas and calls him when she starts getting threats from a mysterious stalker. Everyone at Protection, Inc. is tied up on other cases, but luckily he knows an independent shifter bodyguard whom he trusts to protect her...
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(Would *so* attempt to contribute to an anthology like that if I, er, could bloody write shifters. Sigh. As it is I'm over on the other new femslash meme trying to get my fic mojo back, which is fun.)
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Where's the femslash meme?
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It sounds like a disease to me too but I guess some people thought Sappho was too cliched?
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Bilitis can refer to:
* The Songs of Bilitis, 1894 collection of French erotic poetry attributed to the fictional Bilitis, purported contemporary of Sappho
--- Trois chansons de Bilitis (Three Songs of Bilitis), song cycle by Claude Debussy composed in 1897, based on the poems
* Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1955
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilitis
I'd heard of the second one, and think it's based on the first.
I still think it sounds like a fake name--apparently it was invented by some French dude?
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The protagonists are OCs, and if you skip or skim all the chapters featuring the canonical crew (which is what I do whenever I reread this anyway, even as a Trekkie), I think you can get away with just knowing that Vulcans self-identify as logical (not that I think they in fact are, but humans who write books are notoriously bad at knowing what logic is), Klingons are violent warriors who self-identify as honorable and are at odds with the good guys, and Romulans are a more enigmatic race also at odds with the good guys. Oh, and Vulcans have to mate every seven years or die.
Anyway, I hope I'm not wrong that the important parts of this can be read without too much knowledge of canon, but it occurred to me that it's got a lot of things up your alley, so I thought I'd mention it.
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