The Turning Season by Sharon Shinn

The Turning Season by Sharon Shinn

In national bestselling author Sharon Shinn's latest Shifting Circle novel, a woman must choose between hiding her nature--and risking her heart.

For Karadel, being a shape-shifter has always been a reality she couldn't escape. Even though she's built a safe life as a rural veterinarian, with a close-knit network of shifter and human friends who would do anything for her--and for each other--she can't help but wish for a chance at being normal. When she's not dealing with her shifts or caring for her animal patients, she attempts to develop a drug that will help shifters control their changes--a drug that might even allow them to remain human forever. But her comfortable life is threatened by two events: She meets an ordinary man who touches her heart, and her best friend is forced to shift publicly with deadly consequences. Now Karadel must decide whom to trust: her old friends or her new love.

Sharon Shinn is the author of the Shifting Circle novels, which include The Changing Season, Still Life with Shape-shifter, and The Shape of Desire. She works as a journalist for a trade magazine. Her debut novel, The Shape-Changer's Wife, was a Locus Best First Fantasy Novel nominee in 1995. She has been awarded the William L. He was twice nominated for the John W. Crawford Award for Best New Fantasy Writer. The Campbell Award for Best New Writer is given to the best new writer.

She's also won the 2010 RT Book Reviews Career Achievement Award in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy category, as well as an RT Book Reviews Critics' Choice Award. She is a Northwestern University graduate who has spent her entire life in the Midwest.