Colt Amani Zuri

The world of mankind and shifter kind has finally become one. The wars are over, but peace has brought an unexpected crisis. Pure shifter bloodlines are disappearing, and with every generation another species edges closer to extinction. Their only hope lies with a rare group of humans known as gifted mates—men and women capable of giving birth to full-blooded shifter children. Most remaining shifters have embraced the search with desperate determination. Colt never did. As the last living zebra shifter, he carries the weight of an entire bloodline on his shoulders. Elders, researchers, and matchmakers all insist he has a duty to preserve his species. Colt has heard the speeches a thousand times and ignored every one of them. Why fight to save something already fading? To him, extinction isn’t a tragedy—it’s simply the natural end of a story. He refuses to chase strangers because fate demands it, and he has no interest in becoming a breeding project for people obsessed with preserving history. If the zebra shifters end with him, then so be it. Stoic, independent, and stubborn to a fault, Colt keeps his distance from both humans and other shifters, living life on his own terms despite the expectations surrounding him. Unfortunately for Colt, fate has never cared much about personal opinions. Somewhere in a world that refuses to let the zebra shifters disappear walks a gifted human whose existence could change everything. Whether Colt wants to continue his bloodline or not may soon become irrelevant.