FictionallyYours
Sophomore year was supposed to be simple for Sadie McCall-classes, friends, lacrosse games, and keeping her brother Scott out of trouble. Normal. Safe. Predictable.
That didn't last.
One night in the woods changes everything. Something moves through the trees that shouldn't exist-fast, silent, wrong. When it finds them, it doesn't just leave injuries behind. It leaves something alive inside them.
Scott starts to change first. Strength where there shouldn't be any. Speed that doesn't make sense. Instincts that don't feel human anymore. And Sadie... feels it too. Watching. Waiting. Like something inside her is waking up slowly, whether she wants it to or not.
Beacon Hills has always had secrets. But now they're starting to surface-hunters who don't ask questions, creatures that don't stay dead, and a history the town has spent years pretending isn't real.
And in the middle of it all is Derek Hale.
Older. Silent. Dangerous in a way that doesn't need explaining. He doesn't offer comfort-only warnings. And yet, he understands what's happening to them better than anyone else ever could. Better than he should.
Sadie knows she should stay away from him.
She doesn't.
Because something about him feels like a choice she's already made... long before she was given the chance.
As control slips and something inhuman begins to take shape beneath her skin, Sadie is pulled deeper into a world that feeds on fear, secrets, and blood.
And in Beacon Hills, nothing that changes you ever lets you go back.