NOW PUBLISHED BY SOURCEBOOKS FIRE! Sixteen-year-old Jackie Howard knows nothing about her new guardian Katherine Walter when she moves from New York to Colorado. After discovering that Katherine has twelve boys, Jackie fears that living in the Walter house isn't going to be easy. It's just icing on the cake that the boys look like models... Cover design by pizzazz-

"I don't want you to mark me" I said quickly. "Why?" he asked me, his tone seemed calm but i knew he was far from it. "I have a commitment towards my pack" I told him, hoping he'll understand but to my astonishment his eyes were dark now and he held his palms in a tight fist. "You are my mate Templar, you belong to my pack" he said in a condescending tone. My blood boiled at the tone he was using with me. Nobody talks to me like that. Nobody. "Do not use that tone with me, Everett. You are not my Alpha, I respond to-" none, i was about to say, but had to bite my tongue to change that. I was not ready to tell him that I'm the sole White Shifter, not ready to tell him I'm The Alpha of my pack. So i lied, again.

"MINE!!!" that one word echoed through the cafeteria like an avalanche, causing all the windows and doors to shake on there hinges. As he stalked toward my table in the middle of the room, with a look in his eyes of pure murder, my heart started to beat wildly in my chest and my hands started to sweat. I could feel my wolf clawing at me to get out the closer that he came to me. Now standing in front of the table I can see the rise and fall of his chest and the inky black color of his piercing eyes letting everyone know exactly how close his wolf is to the surface.Conner smirks next to me as he pulls me closer into his side. "I don't see your name on her, so the way I see it this little sweet thing here..... is free game." before I could comprehend what was happening I was snatched from Conners arms into another pair of arms that had my body humming with need. looking up I lock eyes with the guy now holding me seeing the eyes from the bonfire a few weeks ago. I hear my wolf whisper to me "Mate. " oh my god I knew I wasn't crazy, I felt it that night and I'm feeling it now "MINE" he says nuzzling his face in my hair and trailing kisses along my collar bone. Then I felt it, the pain first then followed by the most erotic of pleasures. I couldn't help but to moan at the sensation, then it was gone and I heard my self whimper at the lost of contact. As I got picked up bridal style and walked out the cafeteria I felt myself getting sleepier each step he took "sleep my love" he whispers right before my eyes lose the battle and drop close.

"Oomph!" The sound rushed out of my mouth as the door opened before I could reach the handle and my body hit a wall. I took a step back and realized that it wasn't in fact a wall, but instead a very attractive male. I looked up at his head to see a very messy, but sexy, mop of black hair on top of his head. When I looked closer, I noticed that his hair was a very deep brown that was probably often mistaken for black. My gaze traveled downward to his eyes, where I found two deep, ocean blue eyes looking back at me. My gaze travelled farther down to his crooked nose, to which I assumed came from too many fights. My eyes finally found his pink, very plump lips, which were turned into a sneer. "You have got to be kidding me!" His pink lips said in a very offensive voice. My eyes turned questioning as I looked back up into his eyes. "Whatever, lets finish this. I, Ashton Carter, reject you, as my mate." He, or Ashton, said with venom lacing his voice. He quickly turned and walked down the now vacant hallway with no glance back. Rejection? On my first day? The first person I make eye contact with at this school, rejects me. I guess that's how this school works, if the hottest boy in school rejects you, you're a nobody. So much for making friends, or mates, or whatever they call people at this school. I shake those ocean blue eyes out of my head and continue into the office to start my new life.

Woods and fresh air. The smell of my mate I followed the scent of him into the Beta's study room, why was he there was he talking to my brother? As I reached the door it opened and there stood my brother his forest green eyes staring into my brown ones, we both looked at each other in shock. "Lu-luke." I stuttered he cleared his throat and sighed shaking his head "I Luke Skywalker, Beta of the Blue moon pack reject you, Lily Skywalker." and then he was gone leaving me to stare at an lonely white wall. It was then when reality came crashing down I had just been rejected by my Mate, not only that but my own brother. ∆∆∆