The Shifting Books of The Twin Cities Series

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What is the Twin Cities Series? It's a collection of novellas shaping an urban fantasy world unlike anything you've ever imagined! The Realms is a Gothic metropolis populated by creatures of horror, fantasy and mythology, existing in a dimension separate from ours, yet connected by more than just the portals linking our worlds together. A place of constant danger, mystery, and excitement, where not even the city itself remains free from change.

It's the home of urban fantasy adventure, romance, and comedy. A mix of genres for a unique reading experience that you won't soon forget.

Cody is the central character in The Shifting Books of the series. He is a shape shifter with some monumental problems that all started when he died. He’s escaped to The Realms from the midlands between Heaven and Hell only to find his best friend is potential food for the resident vampires, his girlfriend only loves him in his wolf form and her mother…well that’s a whole other story. 

It isn’t easy being Cody, but like a good wolf he’ll do what he can to protect his pack even if it kills him. Wait…he’s already dead.

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Sample Chapter from SHIFTING IN THE REALMS (Book 1) 

I didn’t bother trying to hide the sound of my approach. It wouldn’t have worked with Remy anyway. He’s a vampire. Besides having excellent hearing, trying to sneak up on one will only get you killed. Of course, in my case I guess that’s not possible, I mean, the getting killed part. You see, I am technically already dead.

“Cody,” Remy said as greeting once I was within earshot. That was several yards away since I have excellent hearing and he knows it. He didn’t even bother to turn from his post as guard at the tunnel into The Realms.

I came up beside him and handed him the still warm rabbit I caught for him on the way out.

“Thanks.” He sunk his fangs into it and had a good long swig of rabbit blood. He swore off human blood a while back. If this was in the real world out there on the other end of the tunnel my bringing Remy this rabbit would be like handing a cop a cup of hot coffee while he was on duty during a cold day. In The Realms things are just a bit wonky.

Remy was leaning up against a tree so I squatted down beside him. I am really tall, better than six and a half feet, but skinny and not very appealing as a human. If I squat it makes me about chest high on Remy even though he’s not small himself.

Remy finished his drink and offered me back the carcass. I wasn’t hungry, ate on the way out, so I shook my head and he jettisoned the remains with one of those incredibly powerful tosses that only a vampire can do. Some other critter would have a nice little snack when they came across it.

“What’s up?”

Remy is a man of few words. In fact, sometimes he can’t even get them out right, but that’s one of the reasons I like him. He’s easy to be with. I get tongue tied a lot. I’m sixteen and as much as I hate to admit it I am at a very awkward age and it ain’t gonna get any better since I’m not gonna age since I’m dead. I told you that, right?

“Just needed to talk.” I ran a long skinny hand through my nondescript brown hair. It never does what I want it to. It’s always in my eyes. I have perpetual ‘bed head,’ another thing that makes me unappealing as a human.

May as well get on with why I came out. Remy was like stone, he could wait for years in order for me to get to the point, but I needed some advice and Remy being my oldest friend in The Realms and adult, I thought he might have something useful to say.
“Pete set me up with a blind date for Friday.” There, I just spit it out. I needed some guidance. I’d never been on a date before. When I died, Hell, it was just a possibility sometime in the future. Now, damn it, sometime was here.

“With a girl?” Remy asked in all honesty.

“Well, yeah.” I tried to push the unruly hair out of my face again. “Pete’s human. What else would he match me up with?”

I mean, Remy knows I’m a shape-shifter. He’s the only one who does. He was here at his post guarding the tunnel into The Realms where a lot of the paranormals in the St. Paul/Minneapolis area live when I arrived beating feet in my wolf form just a few yards ahead of the retrieval unit from The Midlands between Heaven and Hell. I’d escaped while they were waiting for the judgment to come down. My pop always told me to keep my nose clean. Paranormals didn’t get into heaven, and hell, I had just murdered someone, so I had two strikes against me. When I saw the chance I ran, fought my way through the seven plains of existence back to earth, getting pretty beat up in the process.

Remy’s job is to guard this particular entrance to The Realms. He stepped aside. No words asked. I jetted by him full out, tongue hanging and tail tucked. He hid me and blocked their way. I wasn’t worth a tussle with a vampire as ominous as Remy, so they backed off spouting things like ‘you show your face in the real world and you are toast,’ and ‘don’t even let us see you on the earthly plain again.’ They are great at throwing around that kinda shit, but they can’t catch a fast running, sly wolf like me. As a human, I suck. As a wolf, I am awesome - fast, smart, handsome gray fur so thick you could sink your hand up to the wrist in it. The only thing my human body and my wolf body have in common is the eyes. I do have really deep, warm, brown eyes. My sister used to say they were bedroom eyes and one day a girl was going notice them and fall in love with me. Yeah, right…

Sample Chapter from SHIFTING AGONY & ECSTASY (Book 2)

“Here boy…come on…that’s my good boy,” Simone said as I dropped the ball at her feet.

I don’t want you to get the wrong impression. This is not normal wolf behavior, but I am not like any other wolf you have ever seen. The name’s Cody and I am a shape shifter living in The Realms.

And where are The Realms you might ask? Well, maybe that wouldn’t be your first question upon hearing the above statement, but hey, it’s my story so I get to tell it in the order I want to.

The Realms is a parallel dimension hidden between Minneapolis and St. Paul where creatures humans think of as mythical, paranormal or superstition-based roam free. I was born in the regular world with a human mother and shape shifter father. I was doing okay there until my pop disappeared, my mom died of the big ‘C’ and my sister was raped. I took it upon myself to seek revenge for the last deed done to my sister. Not the best choice I ever made. I was killed in the process. While waiting in the Midlands for judgment to come down on whether I went to heaven or hell, with no doubt what that was going to be, I escaped and came here.

So I am a dead, sixteen year old, shape shifter that somehow manages to live a somewhat normal life in The Realms.

“Go get it! Fetch!”

Wait a sec… Let me get the ball…

“That’s a good boy,” Simone says as she runs her fingers through my thick fur. I would fetch that stupid red ball until The Realms froze over if she would just keep doing that.

Did I tell you Simone’s my girlfriend? Well, not really. I mean, I consider her mine, and I know she considers me hers, but she doesn’t know I’m a shape shifter. She thinks I’m just one huge, very damn friendly wolf.

“That’s my Scar. Such a good boy,” she’s rubbing my belly now. That’s where I got my name. She was petting me the first time we were together and I flipped over for the traditional belly rub all us canines love. She noticed my scar. The one that runs almost the full length of my abdomen where the rapist got me with his knife. It’s okay, remember, I got him back.