Sliver Of Evil Book One of the Tek & Nika Series

Sliver Of Evil is about indigenous shapeshifters in prehistoric times. It is the first of the three-book Tek & Nika Series. The series was written for upper middle and YA readers; it may also interest other readers who enjoy the fantastical elements of myths. In the old stories about shapeshifters, nothing good ever came from them, and they were always fearsome predators. Until there was Tek . . . a young deer shapeshifter. In Sliver Of Evil, Sho and his younger brother Tek join the large, powerful Ochwah knat when Tek is fourteen. Tek soon learns he has to cope with perplexing, unwanted shape-shifting. When an evil, cosseted woman of the knat is humiliated, her vengeance is terrible, and in her panther shape she is nearly invincible. There are other secret shapeshifters in the knat, who will try to stop her killing ways. But how much help can Tek, as a young deer shapeshifter, possibly be?