xenotaur

xenotaur

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Novel: Spellpunk Book 1: HEX CODE
Genre: Young Adult & Youth
55492 words
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Synopsis

Cinnamon Frost, a young weretiger recently adopted off the streets, is having trouble adjusting to her new mother, new school and new life - when a magical computer virus begins killing unwary souls who click on the wrong link! Cinnamon's convinced she can stop the killer, but when her attempts to help go awry, she's torn between living by her mother's strict rules and a mysterious fae called the Huntswoman who can teach her how to save her friends - at a terrible price.

Excerpt

It sucks trying to do your homework when you’ve turned into a tiger. It’s not that your body turns two sizes too big for your chair, that your balance goes so you can’t stand, or even that your claws are so sharp that you could punch straight through a keyboard.

It’s the little things. Big cats are nearsighted, so you need big old dorky “tiger” glasses you can barely get on once your hands have gone to claws. And we’re predators, reflexes tied to movement, so I has to fight smashing the screen every time my mouse pointer moves.

And turning into a tiger hurts like getting pummeled with a thousand bars of soap in socks, so the only thing I really want to do after the Change is gnaw on someone, regardless of whether I have three papers all due tomorrow morning.