SHIFT HAPPENS: Tales of BOO #1

A Change is as Good as a Quest

by Storm Grant

Shift Happens - Storm Grant - Tales of B.O.O.

THREE YEARS out of grad school, anthropologist Adrian Thornapple is still stuck in that “temporary” office job. When his former mentor invites him on a rainforest expedition, he says he can’t. He has obligations. He has security. He has… a dead neighbor on his doorstep? It seems she’s fallen victim to a new and deadly designer drug shipping up from the rainforest. Accused of involvement in her death, Adrian suddenly gets that life is short, that civilized doesn’t mean safe, and that he should follow his dreams.

Captain Thomas Ferrell hates the supernatural. When the Army kicked him out for weird behavior, he signed on with paranormal investigators Borderless Observers Org. Three missions in, Tom’s learned that B.O.O. does a lot more than observe. And that their paranormal investigators really are paranormal investigators. Sent to stop a drug operation in the Amazon basin, he’s unwillingly shape-shifted into a huge black jaguar. He believes he must regain his humanity before he can complete his mission. Is he wrong?

Adrian’s expedition morphs into a nightmare of illegal drugs, slave labor and a terrifying quest through the rainforest and the spirit world. Worse yet, his companion and protector is a giant man-eating jaguar with whom he might be falling in love!

Adrian just wants to go home… until he learns that saving the world is a lot more fun than returning to his corporate cubicle.

SHIFT HAPPENS: A male/male paranormal adventure
Full-length novel, approx. 300 pages. Available in digital and print formats.
SHIFT HAPPENS received honorable mention in the Paranormal/Horror category of The Rainbow Awards.

Published: September 3, 2014
Cover Artists:

Willsin Rowe

Genres:

Paranormal, Paranormal - LGBTQ+, Paranormal - Shifters

Tags:

author - canadian

Tropes: Fish Out of Water, Person in Distress, Quest, Reluctant Hero, Secret Society, Wise Mentor
Word Count: 53000
Setting: Toronto, Canada to the Amazon Jungle
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters
Tropes: Fish Out of Water, Person in Distress, Quest, Reluctant Hero, Secret Society, Wise Mentor
Word Count: 53000
Setting: Toronto, Canada to the Amazon Jungle
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters

Excerpt:

About the Author

Storm Grant writes and publishes engaging male/male fiction, more light than dark. Since 2007, Storm has published with MLR, Riptide, Amber Quill, Phaze, Torquere, and more. Check out Storm’s books, here. (Storm's alter ego, Gina X. Grant is represented by Rosemary Stimola, the agent who also represents the Hunger Games series. Check out Gina’s RELUCTANT REAPER trilogy, published by Simon and Schuster.)

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