Highest rank in Werewolf: 6 "Mate," he growled out, as he sniffed the air and began scanning the room with his shining silver eyes. When they landed on mine, it was as if time had just stopped and he was everything that I could possibly need and more. "Her," was all he said, as surprise was written on everyone's face, including Alpha Malik. All I wanted to do was just disappear from the face of the Earth as if I never existed in the first place. Alejandra Sanchez was once a radiant girl who had lots of friends and always had a smile on her face, but that all changed when her mother passed away, leaving her all alone with her father. Some time after her mother had passed, her father had remarry a woman and forgot all about his little girl who was left depressed and alone to cope with the death of her mother. One by one her friends drifted apart, the same way her father did and the teasing and bullying began. Her mother was one of the friendliest women around the pack who was loved by everyone and she looked like an exact copy of her, to fuel everyone's hatred at her, making her wish that she never existed. To make everyone forget about her, she stopped talking.

Every half century in a small little town hidden in the woods, a beast comes out from the forest to claim his bride on the night of an eclipse. The people of call this phenomenon "the taking". This beast is said to be very dangerous. It roams door to door searching for the woman whose being calls to his animal instincts. He will kill, mutilate and destroy everything in his path until he finds his bride. In the past, the townsmen have tried to hunt the creature and kill him before they can steal one of their marriageable daughters, but the beast does not hunt alone. He has followers among the shadows to make sure his goal is accomplished. Once he finds his bride, he carries her back to the forest where she is never seen or heard from again. Celeste believes this so-called "legend" is just some scary fairytale her grandmother made up to scare her. But was she ever wrong when a pair of moonlit eyes stared straight at her through her bedroom window and entered her room. Next thing she knew, she was being carried out the house and into the woods by a half-naked man who called her his. Who would have thought? Grandma wasn't crazy after all. Young Adult novel. Paranormal/Comedy-Romance @2014