Beep. Beep. Beep.
"Leana, get your arse downstairs."
"Love you too mum," I retorted sarcastically. I walked down stairs, my pajamas still flopping lamely by my legs. Once I was downstairs, I found my mom, with a box, and her smile practically reached from ear to ear.
"Happy birthday baby, I got you something,"
"Thank you so much mom!" I snatched the box away from her, and opened it hastily, to find a pale pink dress, and nude pumps next to it. I smiled widely, with her smiling back, just as hapilly.
"Today's the big day honey. Happy sixteenth," She said, a smile that could almost be described as too big for her, was plastered on her face. I ran upstairs, excited to put on my new dress and shoes.
After the long process of getting ready, I looked in the mirror. "You can do this Leana. You find your mate." And with that and a satisfactory smile, I turned and walked out of the house, ready to face another day of school, and ready to find my mate.
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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