As time goes by from sun to moon

An endless ever-changing rune

We must defend our way of life,

Protect the tribe, prevent all strife.

Your destiny will come to pass

A penance spun with threads of glass

These many years you will endure

This lonely spell without a cure

For countless years on anguish feast

Your form a mindless, savage beast

Until a hostile, dreadful force

Brings duty as your only course

The death of many in our tribe

A growing menace, spreading wide

A journey you can not prevent

Heart-broken, tearful souls relent

Your function then comes to the fore;

Care for your clan forevermore

When time is right, you find your mate

And fight to free your truest fate

Then deepest love will call to you

Go forth and meet it with its due

These final words ring ever clear

Who finds it first must hold it dear

For each must find the value true

Alone, with no well-meaning clue

If ‘tis not so, the turn reverse

No hope of mercy from this curse

Long ago, atop a snow-covered mountain in North Carolina, four blood-brothers, Mathias, Marcus, Lucien, and Jonathan, were bound together by an ancient Cherokee curse and banished to Eternity Mountain by their tribe’s Shamans. They were left with the ability to shape-shift, various psychic gifts, and eternal life. 

Each of the four, in their own way, has come to terms with the curse and the powers it gives them.  The first book, Snow Shadows, published in August 2008, tells the story of Mathias.  The second, Storm Shadows, tells the story of Marcus and is now under contract.  It will be released soon.  I've started the third book, tentatively titled Sun Shadows, and it tells Lucien's story.  The fourth will be about Jonathan, who knows their time is running out and is determined to break the curse for all of them.