All earthly creatures are destined to love (and to be loved by) a single individual - their soulmate. They say that, upon birth, the Gods celebrate the creation of new-life with the gift of love; however, even the Gods make mistakes. Though quite rare, it is possible to find somebody who is mateless, an anomaly known as a lone soul.
Lyra Thorup has never experienced love - not even from her mother. Orphaned at birth, Lyra was lost in the shuffles of society. It was purely coincidence that she was born just as the world shifted from human control to supernatural control. Humans now must obey territorial alphas or vampiric overlords.
But Lyra is not just some average human, she is a witch, although fairly untrained, Lyra remains a force to be reckoned with. Living in the outskirts of Eclipse territory, she must always be ready for visits from boarder patrol, rogues, and any other passerby.
A genetically unique but emotionally lost teenager must figure out who she is within her mixed-up, warring world of Shifters and Wolfstalkers.
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It wasn't Maddie's choice to be born a half-breed, half Shifter, half Wolfstalker -- a hunter of Shifters -- and it wasn't her choice to keep her identity a secret. But after trying to attend high school like any normal sixteen-year-old, things quickly spiral south when her Stalker uncle finds out about her and catapults her out of anonymity and into the awareness--or possibly the crosshairs--of The Order of the Wolfstalker. Maddie must think fast and figure out a way to keep herself and her family safe, or risk losing everything. Including her life.
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