High School. The best years of your life or the worst. High school is what you make it. It makes you or breaks you. What are you? A jock? A cheerleader? Prom queen? How about a 'nerd'? Or maybe you'd be one of the loners? The students of Hillsborough high school thought they were an ordinary school. It was a school were nothing eventful happened. Their small town wasn't known for anything. They were going to live their quiet lives and finish high school peacefully. Boy were they wrong.

Two years. They'd gone missing two years ago, all seven of them presumed dead. To them, they might as well have been. Two years it took for them to finally be recovered. While they are no longer at war literally, they are at war with themselves as they battle their way through the healing process of the horrendous things that happened to them.

Eliza Aldrin lost her big brother to things that she had no control over. Tyler had been her best friend, she loved him more than anything. The only thing Tyler left behind was his misunderstood dog, King, who missed his owner more than anything. Eliza vowed to herself that she would never again let her brother down and that she would take care of King no matter what. Some circumstances just remain out of Eliza's hands.

Secrets never remain secrets.

"When winter comes, you'll hear no lions roar, no stags grazing the fields, no roses growing in the meadows, no snakes in the sand, the krakens will freeze where they swim, the flayed men will rot and wither, no trouts swimming in the river and no falcons flying in the air. Only the dragon's breath will warm you in your halls. You shall hear only the wolves howl... and then you will know. Winter has come again. And it will be their time to reign."

In their world, a lone wolf never survives. Alexandra Laroche has had enough. When her older sister crosses that very last line, Alexandra makes a choice that will change her life and the lives of her family forever. When Alexandra and her cousin, Ember, find themselves in the swamps of Louisiana, past will become present, wounds will reopen, hearts will be broken, and lives will be destroyed.

The human life is made up of choices. Yes or no. In or out. Up or down. And then there are the choices that matter. Love or hate. To be a hero or to be a coward. To fight or to give in. To live. Or die. Live or die. That's the important choice. And it's not always in our hands.

The Laroche Pack... they're strong, they're cocky, they're Guardians. A new war is beginning, with new enemies. What happens when the predators become the prey... Truths will be revealed... Deceptions will be uncovered... And sacrifices will be made.