Mary McCarthy, a poor Irish farmer’s wife, wakes in her grave in 1854 in western Ireland. Escaping from her grave she finds that her body has cured her of death and old age. In the days and years to come she slowly discovers who and what she has become.
Alone in a tough world she is tougher yet, she discovers she can become inhumanly strong and fast – and able to grow very sharp claws. Mary was canny enough to bring all her family alive though the five years of the Great Famine. She finds that the powers that work on the rest of her body can also improve her brain. Carefully, slowly, bright Mary becomes brilliant.
Shapechanger’s Birth and Shapechanger’s Progress tell how Mary became the most feared crimelord in all Ireland. And in another persona a doctor and inventor. And what happens when she meets others like herself.
Click here to read Part One of Shapechanger’s Birth.
