How did the shapechangers come to be?
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The Demon in the Forest
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Mary fights to the death
In the summer of 1858 Mary and her cohorts in her criminal organization put on the first of what she hopes will become an annual money-maker. Another criminal group decides to take the profits from them.
But the large and efficient Org (as its members call it) has the reputation of being protected by the Cat Lady. Too bad the masterminds of the criminal group didn’t believe it – too bad for them.
This tale is told in The Organization at War.
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Sasha and the Kidnappers
Almost a year goes by before Sasha gets a chance to fight crime again. Alicia and David fear using Sasha’s powers as a crutch.
However, when a young girl is in terrible danger an open-minded FBI agent asks for help.
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Sasha and the Criminals
Sasha is now an established fashion model, not famous, but getting steady work. Yet she has lost none of her deadly skills. As a crew of bank robbers find out the hard way.
In the aftermath Sasha becomes friends with two Brooklyn Police Department detectives – who at a tavern one evening tell her about a frustrating murder case.
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Sasha and the Terrorists
Sasha Canaro achieves the ambition she hatched when she was five years old – to go to the Olympics. She has stretched her abilities for thirteen years and sacrificed much to do this.
Now, however, her abilities are so far beyond those of ordinary humans that it would be unfair to compete with them. Yet many people have made their own sacrifices and spent time, energy, and passion on getting her here. Her conscience will not let her disappoint them.
She must perform in competition this one last time and win without setting any records which mere humans could not surpass. Once she’s done that she can retire from athletic competition.
But disaster strikes in the last few days of the Olympics. Terrorists take hostage several dozen athletes, killing a guard and badly injuring other people. Including her good friend and former Judo competitor Saya.
They should not have done that. Now immortal shapechanger Sasha Canaro has a new ambition.
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Mary becomes the Cat Lady
Mary and Bridget’s laundry is a success after almost a year of hard work, aided in no small part by the advice of their invisible Quaker business partner.
Mary is in heaven, devouring books on many subjects, attending learned lectures, and doing scientific experiments. Aided by her extranatural understanding of biology she has invented Pasteurization almost a decade before the French chemist after which the process was named in this universe.
Not that life is perfect. Her happy rambling after dark was marred once by a pimp trying to forcibly recruit her. Her temper got the best of her and his blood was very hard to get out of her new cashmere dress.
Then she rescues and heals an almost-murdered young woman. And to right the wrong, and prevent worse, she must assume the persona of legendary Sharpclaws Irusan’s Daughter, in Enter the Cat Lady.
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Mary McCarthy travels the Danger Road
Mary McCarthy and her friends Barbara and Bridget travel by stage coach to Cork City to begin a new life there.
They are escorted by teacher Edward Timmons, an American Indian adopted by an American Quaker family when quite young. Timmons, an unconventional pacifist, believes that one best keeps the peace by walking softly and carrying a big revolver.
Along the way they encounter a quartet of very unlucky bandits. But those are the breaks when one travels the Danger Road.
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Final story of Part One of Shapechanger’s Birth now online
Immortal Shapechanger Mary McCarthy finds a home, friends, and a family of sorts. And discovers more of her destiny.
To read it go to Shapechanger’s Destiny.
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Final chapter of “The Super Olympian” is now online
The final chapter of “The Super Olympian” is now online. To read it click on Chapter Twelve.
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“The Super Olympian” Chapter One posted
Until she died, 18-year-old Sasha Canaro was bound for the Olympics. Recovering from death, now she is an immortal shapechanger, faster and many times stronger than an ordinary human. She is still bound for the Olympics, but competition in them would be no competition.
The goal she had aimed for since she was five would be boringly easy. What goal can she replace it with?
To find out go to Chapter One.
