num_pages: 184
description: The year is 1863. Caleb Chilson is a private in the Confederate Army currently camped in the Virginian woods. Most of his time is spent on picket duty on the lookout for a Yankee attack. But when the moon is full he manages to slip away from the encampment and into the woods to become something a little less than human. Imagine his surprise when he meets another werecat like himself. The only difference? Brance Brenneman wears a Yankee uniform.Wounded and hurt Brance is a loner by nature gruff and grumbling who doesnt want anything to do with Calebat first. The younger bobcat prevails and starts to win Brance over until they turn human again and find themselves on opposite sides of the American Civil War. Contains the Under a Confederate MoonBitten as a teen Caleb now suffers through a painful transformation from human to bobcat a few days each month. As a bobcat he leaves behind his camp and fellow soldiers to explore the night. But a gunshot and the bright scent of fresh blood draws him to a clearing where he learns he isnt the only one of his kind.Beneath a Yankee SkyBrance and Caleb leave the war to forge a new life in the wilderness of Pennsylvania. But trappers near their camp are hunting bobcats and they dont much care if Brance and Caleb are in the fur only part of the time. Brance finds his peaceful existence shattered and he has to fight to defend the lifeand the bobcat the manhes come to love.A More Perfect UnionBrance has gone into hiding with his lover Caleb. Deserters intent on keeping to themselves they find a nice sparse acre of land where they can finally settle down. Life falls into domesticated routine for both the brooding Yank and the excitable Rebel. Together they struggle to create a more perfect union forged of love and their shared shapeshifting secret. But the discovery of another bobcat encroaching on their territory threatens to destroy what theyve worked so hard to attain.
language: English
title: Between States
publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform