CAN it really be the end?

In the final book of the Shapeshifter series, Dax will face shock, fear and betrayal, as well as grief beyond his worst imaginings. And yet he will also discover astonishing secrets about his friends, his family, even his foes – as well as the meaning of being a COLA. In a surging storyline which will take him from a winter wonderland to the black terror of a North Sea storm, from comfort to cataclysm, Dax learns some awful truths about the people he loves and must finally make a desperate choice which will haunt him forever. Which will shift his life into a whole new shape.