Adessa Wilde was a normal girl, adopted at a young age into a loving family. The only differences? At five years old, she had no memory of her past life, and her new town lived in fear of the Shifter, offering sacrifices to soothe their troubled minds. When the sacrifice hits to close to home, Adessa finds herself lost. Multiple encounters with the Shifter leads her to believe he isn't as awful as the town believes, but who will believe little old Adessa? In this tale, with a Red Riding Hood like theme, how will Adessa uncover the truth, and make the town believe that things may not always be as they seem, and that Fear is no ruler?
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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