"In him, she finds a soul mate, the man she has been waiting eight long years for. And, in her, he finds the curse of Mateship; a beautiful bane he wants to hate."
Twenty-four-year-old Lia Carrion is the Crow Queen: the leader of a large shape-shifting Clan from Africa. She hunts vampyres, protects humans and is responsible for her 'Flock'.
With her Canadian father, Levi, passed away and her West African mother, Nasia, remarried and raising a son, Lia feels alone more than ever in Florida.
Lia dreads being maid-of-honour at her sister's wedding and attends a bachelorette-party in a country on the other side of the world. New Zealand. It's a beautiful, cold, mysterious place; its ancient legends and tribes could rival even her culture's.
There, she meets nineteen-year-old Tane Mahora: a Maori Chief that keeps secrets similar to hers. Proud, brooding, powerful and protective of his family and tribe, his intimidating personality frightens Lia's Flock, but excites Lia Carrion.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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