Some say you don't know what you've got till it's gone. But the truth is you knew exactly what you had, you just never thought you'd lose it.
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"Feisty. I like it. I'll let you play this little defiance game of yours for bit, but you see here kitten..." he began to inch closer, close enough for her to feel his breath on her skin.
"....I can be a tad bit impatient. A man has needs, and surely I can find someone else to do the job."
Rhea's facial expression went from confusion, to hurt as she realized what he meant.
"Go to hell." She snarled, angry and jealous at the thought of him with somebody else.
Before Rhea could turn and climb down the tree, her wrist was caught in a tight grip, and for the second time today she was yanked right back into his chest.
"Listen here, little mate. You can deny the bond all you want, but know that it is inevitable. And as long as you continue to, I will be free to do whatever - and whomever I want," he growled.
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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