Overnight Shift

by Bill Siracusa, Skye (Artist), Khren Phyros (Editor)

Adam Chaney is a carefree county electrician working an overnight job at the local ranger station. It's a pretty typical gig. Long hours, quiet scenery... the occasional drooling supernatural monster.

The worst Adam expected from his company for the evening--gruff park ranger Dale Wallace--was a few dirty looks. At best, there's a chance Adam can use his jockish charms to push the evening into more exciting territory.

Tonight however, Dale is not quite himself, and Adam is about to get a hell of a lot more excitement than he bargained for.

Will Adam get off this job with his hide, and his humanity, intact?

Cover and illustrations by Skye (Twitter @skyebluew0lf)

104 pages, Paperback

Published December 6, 2019

Reviews

[Michael Miele]

This is the first book by Bill I've read and as a fan of transformation related shenanigans, I was excited to dive in. The premise is that Dale, the park ranger, is working an overnight shift at the ranger station while Adam, the electrician, is working on fixing the electrical system in the station overnight. The story follows Dale and Adam over the course of the night and how they both react to finding out Dale is a werewolf. I found it an easy read and enjoyed the characters. I wish we would have gotten a little more info on Adam's life kinda like how we did with Dale. At times I felt as though Adam was meant to be the hunky young electrician, and while he's characterized like that, I also felt as though there was more that could have been explored with him. Kate stole all the scenes she was in, I really enjoyed her character and would love to read more stuff that had her as a character. As far as the transformation aspect of the story is concerned, I enjoyed it. The descriptions were well-written and there was a good sense of pacing out the changes over time. It didn't feel rushed and giving the characters time to react to the changes helps out a lot when writing transformation. I'm not super into the dom/sub frame of mind and there was a good amount of that in this story. That's not to say it's worse off for having it, it just wasn't a part that worked for me. I also felt like Dale lost a little of his agency as a character by the end of the story as a result of that heavy dom/sub theming, but then again I could just be reading too far into it. In all seriousness, I'm really glad Bill published this book. I'm a huge fan of transformation stories and seeing more people take the risk in putting out something like this is heartening to see. I'm excited to keep my eye on Bill for future books!