[Cassidy Edwards 4.50] • Fireblood

**A Cassidy Edwards Short Story by USA Today Bestselling and Award-winning author Carmen Caine: **

At puberty, they’d called it. I, Naz Beauchene, was the first, official family dud.

Born into a long line of illustrious shifters of the feline variety, my family fully expected me to blossom into a panther or maybe even a cherished lioness. They got neither. Not even one spark of magic stirred my blood.

But then one day, a handsome Nether Reach Keeper crashed through the door where I worked as an imp trainer...and everything changed.

*Approximately 15,500 words*