Having just turned 18, Melanie Winters is of age to attend the Royal Mating Ball at the Alpha Kings castle. Melanie was in no rush to find her mate, she loved her independence and wasn't ready to give that up, but as her mother once told her, one whiff of your mates scent and she'll change her mind.
Alpha Greyson Black of the Royal Family is 27 and still hasn't found his mate. While he longs for her day and night, he has chosen to relieve his frustration in.....other ways..... that don't involve clothes.....or his mate. This was his final Mating Ball before he gave up and would make another she wolf his luna, but all those thoughts flew out of the window when he caught scent of her.
She's warm and loving.
He's icy cold.
Opposites are supposed to attract.
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"Just reject me already." I whimpered, trying to squirm out of his tight grasp.
"Never, mi amore." he grumbled.
"Then let me save us the trouble. I, Melanie Winters, rej-" I was cut off by his hand smothering my mouth.
"Don't you even think about finishing that sentence, or I won't hesitate to show you who you belong to." he growled, sending shivers down my spine, and not ones of fear.
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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