A Beautiful and Deadly Secret - A Beautiful and Deadly Secret

A Beautiful and Deadly Secret is a complete duology and contains Other and Foxfire. Confessing I'm a shapeshifter could get me killed. I crave the forbidden rush of leaping from my bedroom window at night and transforming into an owl, but I could lose it all if anyone catches me. Shapeshifting can be a beautiful and deadly secret. I'm Other. A half-pooka shapeshifter, to be exact. In the small town of Klikamuks, Washington, coming out as a paranormal person means staring down the barrel of a shotgun.
I haven't even told my boyfriend, Zack, who I really am. And I'm hoping he will be the boy to take my virginity. Worse, a pack of werewolves claims the national forest behind my house as their territory. Tensions in Klikamuks escalate into murder. A serial killer is targeting Others like me. On the hunt for clues, I meet Tavian, a sexy Japanese fox-spirit who challenges me to embrace my shapeshifting.
He rivals Zack and makes me question everything. Can I find the killer before he finds me, or will my secrets be the death of me?***My own magic might kill me. One winter long ago, I watched my mother-a kitsune, or Japanese fox-spirit-leave me in the snow for the dogs. But that's a memory buried beneath eleven years, and I've lived in America since then. I have my family, who adopted me, and my girlfriend, Gwen.
Now I'm back in Japan. My grandparents invited us to spend New Year's with them in Tokyo. I pretend to be happy for Gwen, but I can't shake the nightmares. A faceless ghost haunts me, warning me that she is coming. A gang of dog-spirits wants me dead. I'm the spitting image of their enemy, a kitsune named Yukimi. Is Yukimi my birth mother who abandoned me? I never knew her true name, the key to a kitsune's magic.
I don't even know my own true name. And soon my magic threatens to kill me, tearing apart my half-human body. I need to find the truth before it's too late.