"Skin Deep" was first published in the Inked anthology in 2010 and has now been released as a standalone novella. It links in with the Cassie Palmer universe, but focuses on the War Mage Corps and the were community.

"Skin Deep" tells the story of werewolf Lia de Croissets, a war mage in Las Vegas who stumbles across an ominous magical ward that appears as a dragon on her skin--and has a mind of its own…