When the moon goddess created werewolves, a great evil emerged, threatening her new creations. Wanting to keep them safe, she blessed four familial lines with the marks of the elements, gifting them the individual abilities to bend earth, water, fire, and air. For centuries, the marked fought the great evil, stuck in a stalemate that seemed never-ending, only ever stalling during the shift from marked generation to marked generation.
Eventually, in the hopes of defeating the great evil for good, the marked combined their powers, killing themselves in the process. But in the end, their plan only succeeded in temporarily locking away their foe.
Now, the next and last generation of the marked are beginning to band together. Will they be able to defeat the great evil once and for all? Or will they be the last marked generation and fail in their mission?
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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