The shapeshifter Tek lives on, but time moves strangely. He befriends Nika, a young servant and an owl shapeshifter in the mid-1700s.Fierce, independent Nika — she is all but a slave to her callous masters, and will need a friend like Tek, much more than she realizes. Nika Rising is the second book in the three-book Tek & Nika Series, about indigenous shapeshifters. Warning - In this series, violence is not pervasive, but when it occurs it is horrific. People are beset by depravity, and not all survive it.
