Once Bitten (An Anya Maynard Novel)
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*Book One of the Anya Maynard Series*
All Anya knows of her family are the two faceless names on her birth certificate and a gruesome headline from a twenty year old newspaper announcing her parent's deaths.
She never cared to know the how's or why's of it, a lifetime of abusive foster mothers and ten years on the streets has taught her only to care about the what is and not the may have been. But maybe if she knew of her family's past she wouldn't have walked into the middle of a violent pack feud.
A feud that is just beginning.
A feud that was started because of her.
Anya felt like she had found a place where she could make a life, a place she could settle after years on the run.
But did she really run from her problems, or run to them?
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