In Strays, the first book of The Glaring Chronicles, we met Sarah Smallhouse, a teenage runaway, and Kyle Winslow, an awkward alcoholic, two reluctant outcasts who fell in with a secret order of feline changelings called The Glaring. Moving freely among us, sometimes as common cats, sometimes in more human form, these mysterious creatures mark our movements as we go about our lives, ever vigilant to threats from an ancient evil known throughout history as Jackal. Now, in Jackal, Book II, Sarah and Kyle join forces with three shape-shifting cats to rescue the enigmatic leader of The Glaring,...

It is a time of shadows for The Glaring and their human counterparts. Young Sarah, the human charge of our shape-shifting felines, has been captured by Jackal and is being held in captivity with Youngblood, The Glaring's weary leader. Molly and Tom, Sarah's two staunchest protectors, languish on the terrifying "Death Row," awaiting execution in the most horrible way possible. And young Kyle, the reluctant warrior who may hold the secret to defeating Jackal, has fled from the group to pursue his own selfish interests, abandoning his friends in their darkest hour. As Jackal grows stronger and...