title: The Unfinished Life of N.
author: Micah Cawber
description: Micah Cawber has published a number of short stories, academic essays, and interviews. Cawber is a reclusive husband and father of two.
zlib_text: Rhaege, Drakon of the Fire Dragons, is cursed to live his eternal life without
  his human mate. He watched broken-hearted as the first died in his arms over
  a thousand years ago and has had to witness the same occur six more times
  since. When he meets the eighth incarnation, a pick-pocketing, smart-
  mouthed teenager, Rhaege isn’t sure what to do with him.
  Reincarnated over and over, Micah has dreamed of Rhaege his entire life.
  When Micah meets the shifter after snatching his wallet, Micah immediately
  feels the connection, but fights it. He’s lived most of his life on the streets,
  unloved and unwanted, and fear makes him run—right into the dragons’
  worst enemy.
  After saving his human, Rhaege hands the boy over to his best friend for safe
  keeping, knowing Micah’s too young and he’s too weak. When the time
  comes five years later for Rhaege to claim what’s his, he ignores the call. The
  guilt won’t let him take his lover into his arms yet again, knowing it’s a death
  sentence for Micah.
  But M