In the decade called the Texting Twenties, young men and women all over the world suddenly begin to transform into animals. To keep the American public safe from them, the therianthropes, or beast-people, who survive their first change are sent to a compound called Sanctuary, high in the Colorado Rockies, where the only law is the law of the wild.

A young reporter named Amy Pelham wonders if the government might not be wrong in how it treats theris. There have always been stories about passers, people who are hiding that they're theris, and how could they do that if theris stopped being human at their first change? Seeking answers, she comes too close to the truth for the comfort of the powerful, and gets the scoop of her life: the chance to see how Sanctuary really works.

From the inside.

Natural Life includes violence and frightening situations. Suggested readers are teens to adults.