title: On the Origin of Shifters
author: Lodge, Philippa
description: A big, bad wolf meets an innocent grad studentBeth Ogden has lists and notebooks and transcriptions and scans and years of work toward her PhD in History. She's preparing to go to a shifter commune to do more research when she's asked to take an undercover FBI agent along as her assistant. An attractive, intriguing FBI agent.There are warning signs that the peaceful, spiritual commune is turning into something more sinister.Agent Alex Three Feathers, half wolf shifter, half bobcat shifter, all jaded, slips into his role as research assistant, but wishes his undercover days were over. He's being considered for a role in the FBI's Shifter Task Force, but there are a few problems:1) His half-brother and liaison for this assignment is already on the task force,2) They hate each other,3) He has to survive this commune that's a hair trigger away from exploding in his face,4) He's falling for Beth, who's likely to get herself killed through her naïveté.