Holly B. - , reviewed on 2/11/2010

Helpful Score: 7

What a ride, I finished this book in one hugh gulp. Jennifer Ashley has constructed a world where the shifter community was "outed" by a member on live TV about twenty years previously. Once revealed, the shifter communities were hunted and killed as animals in some countries. In the US shifters were allowed to live in relative peace in shanty towns if they "took the collar". The restraining collar, part magic and part science, that once placed around the neck can not be removed. If the shifter becomes aggressive, the collar shocks the shifter in increasinly larger doses until the shifter is unconscious or has calmed down. The collar is why shifters are not considered a physical threat. Treated as 3rd class citizens, refused most jobs, knowledge, and technology most shifters concentrate on family life not material concerns. Or so it appears. The story opens with a female human lawyer trying to defend a male shifter accused of murdering his girl friend (also a human). Because of the collars, the lawyer knows that the case is false but trying to prove it becomes her crusade. Following the trail of evidence introduces her to her first shifter and to the shifter community at large. This was great book, a fully drawn "world" and I can hardly wait for the next installment, write faster Jennifer!

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