If you go down to the woods today, you'd better not go alone...
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I was 10 when I first strayed from the path, Mary-Beth and I were going to collect water like we did every Sunday after mass, when we got to the fork in the path, both of the paths lead the same way and are about the same distance, so no one really understands why there is such a fork in such a remote path, but it makes the same journey every day seem different, so me and Mary-Beth decided to race, each taking a different path.
Jayne's village is plagued by a monster that lives in the woods, it feeds on anyone who strays from the path, but Jayne soon finds herself caught between the monster who loves her and the Huntsman who to kill him.
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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