Publisher's Note After one of his tigers is stolen and killed during a trip to Stuttgart, Sazi councilmember and entertainer Antoine Monier finds Tahira Kuric, a lovely Turkish-American shapeshifter from the rival clan Hayalet Kabile, in police custody in tiger form, but despite their animosity, they are forced into an alliance to bring down a rogue shapeshifter out to destroy the Sazi. Original.