"For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist's heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams....

A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in.

Katie Carew wishes she could be anyone but herself, and turns into a hamster

Mercy Thompson, a car mechanic in the tri-cities of eastern Washington, uses her shapeshifting abilities to help maintain the peace between humans and supernatural beings, but she must work overtime to protect her friends when she crosses the local Vampire Queen who, unable to get past the werewolf pack that protects Mercy, decides to target the shapeshifter's friends.

Five original stories where strange changes occur, from a boy and a cat changing places and a young man learning the price of selfishness to an invisible princess finding herself.

"Horace and Hattie watch a caterpillar become a butterfly . . . and are inspired to attempt a transformation of their own!"--

High school junior Zara and her friends continue to try to contain the pixies that threaten their small Maine town, but when a Valkyrie takes Zara's boyfriend, Nick, to Valhalla, the only way to save him is to trust a pixie king, Astley.

In this astonishingly assured, exquisitely crafted debut collection, Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Like the best storytellers, Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts. Most dazzling is Doerr's gift for conjuring...