Cara is an orphan, abandoned by her parents, been in and out of the Foster system and juvie since she was little. And she's a shapeshifter, little does anybody know. When she's brought to her first new Foster home since getting out of juvie, she knows she has to make it count, that she can't mess up this time. There, she finds out more about what she is, and she's recruited to aide in being the law for the secret society where all supernaturals belong, when she meets her biggest enemy yet. She must work with her new group to bring down the one threatening her and everything she holds dear, her group she begins to see as family, and gets a little too close to two of them, creating no end of confusion and indicisoin to them and her. Betrayal, pain, and her own and others pasts become entangled and she knows to ever actually get the life she's dreamed for she must face her fears and become the fighter she's trained to be. Who is she? Who are her parents and why. Is she so powerful?Accompanied by people she begins to see as family, (And for Jase and Tyler, a little more than family) she will fight the best she ever has, to win, because now winning means everything.
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The wind rushed past me as my wings beat against the night sky. I noticed a copse of trees up ahead. I slowed to a stop, talons clutching a low-hanging branch. I looked beyond the trees and a pair of glowing golden eyes met my own.
Wolf eyes.
My eyes widened in fear as I took off. I dodged the trees in my path, but one branch snapped on my wing. My vision blurred, pain lacing through my wing. I continued to flap my wings, clinging desperately to the notion I would make it out alive.
More than one wolf was chasing me, their paws a staccato on the ground. They would catch up. They would devour me. I tried to stay in the air, but the pain was unbearable. I fell to the ground, fluttering down like a dead leaf.
I snapped my eyes open. Breathing heavily, I sat up. My room shifted in and out of focus as my eyes adjusted.
When I was little, my father always told me that dreams were just my imagination, that people were never chased by wolves, and people certainly could never be birds.
Vera Stone is a seventeen-year-old girl who lives in a small Louisiana town by the bayou. Small, boring, where nothing ever happens. Or so she and her friends think. One night the hidden darkness surrounding their town and their lives comes to the surface. Will Vera and her friends figure out the secrets hidden through their town's history before it's too late?