Callanthe Gaiadaughter has always had the gift of healing, even from a young age. After several years of apprenticing under the great mages, healers, apothecaries, and midwives on the continent, she embarks on her journey to aid anyone in need of healing. However, she is met with brutal scorn and persecution when her gifts are seen as witchcraft by the very people she has healed--the humans. With the imminent threat of death on her heels, she decides to run. She is now intimately aquainted with running, hiding, and evading her persecutors.
Will she ever stop running? Should she?
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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