title: Snow Spirits
author: Baun, Marci
description: Snow leopard shifter Lin Xuě thought she was safe, but when a brutal tyrant discovers her secret, she must leave everything she knows behind to escape eternity in a cage.Xuě lives in a remote mountain village with her parents. Never truly accepted by the villagers, she is safe, but lonely until she meets Kwan Bao, a man from a neighboring village her parents want her to marry. He is kind and accepting, but she has to leave her parents, the only people who have ever loved her, behind for a new life surrounded by strangers. Will her life in his village be any better? Or is she trading one difficult situation for another?But someone has leaked her secret, and, suddenly, she has to make a choice: stay, save her parents, and become a prisoner of the People's Liberation Army, or flee for a chance to be free.With the Great Famine in full swing and Chairman Mao's oppressive presence felt in every inch of China, Xuě finds herself running for her life across Asia only one step ahead of the People's Liberation Army.Snow Spirits is a standalone action adventure women's fiction novel of The Children of the Wild series.