Though non-magic themselves, Sashe and her sister have grown up with shape changers, and now a deadly foe is out to banish their magic from the country. She's slowly falling for the new boy, but she must choose whether she and her sister can stay with the shape changers with their dangerous future. Should they decide to stay, how will they protect themselves against such powerful enemies? Novella.When a new boy moves to town, Sashe realizes how suddenly her life is about to change. Though non-magic themselves, she and her sister have grown up with shape changers, and now a deadly foe is out to banish the shape changing magic from the country. The Protectors have the ear of the king and they've cast a curse on the shape changers designed to slowly kill them off. Sashe is forced to consider her survival when a friend of hers is killed because her father refused to help the Protectors. She's slowly falling for the new boy, but she must choose whether she and her sister can stay with the shape changers with their dangerous future. Should they decide to stay, how will they protect themselves against such powerful enemies?First novella (nearly 22,000 words) in the Protectors prequels. Set ten years before Promising Light and two years before Fire and Light.

When Sierra and Sashe's husbands and brother leave on a dangerous quest to find a group of Protectors who are terrorizing a town in search of shape changers, the women follow. The mission takes a deadly turn when the men are taken captive, and Sierra and Sashe are forced to use their ingenuity to protect them or they may lose their loved ones forever. A short story in the Protectors series.Sierra and Sashe are tired of their husbands and brother going on dangerous missions without them. So when the men leave on a quest to find a group of Protectors who are terrorizing a town in search of shape changers, the women follow. The mission takes a deadly turn when the men are taken captive, and Sierra and Sashe are forced to use their ingenuity to protect them or they may lose their loved ones forever.This is a short story in the Protectors series, set after Fire and Light and before The End of Light.