The Cloud Roads

Moon is an orphan who can change his body into a winged creature that flies. He has hidden this all his life, and he remembers almost nothing of the people he was born to. He has tried to live among the tribes of his river valley, with mixed success, and his adopted tribe has just cast him out again.

At that low point he meets another shape-shifter, someone who seems to know exactly what Moon is. The stranger promises him a place in a community of his own kind, and for a man who has spent years alone, the offer is hard to refuse.

The stranger leaves some things unsaid. Moon's arrival will shift the balance of power in the colony, and his unusual lineage matters to its survival. The colony is under threat of extinction from the Fell, a danger its people dread.

Fantasy told from an outsider's point of view, with a nonhuman world and a hero who has learned to distrust everyone. To save himself and the kin he has only just found, Moon has to break habits drilled into him over a lifetime. Expect a story driven by belonging, concealment and danger from the start.