Quinn Betaine. An incredibly talented 17 year old orphan, living with an abusing, rich aunt and uncle. Her loving and kind parents died when she only two months old, and she was there when they died. It was a wolf attack, a gruesome one at that. Tearing their limbs to shreds. How she was found lying on the side of a railroad track is, well, something people never could make sense of.
Alexander Thyme. A 17 year old boy who, with all the gossip at his past and future schools, is a hot bad boy with a quiet soul. But people forget to include that he has an inescapable past, a past that once you find out, you can never turn back. He was also found on the same railroad that Quinn was on a month before. A coincidence? That's what people think, but for the others, it's a sign.
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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