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I scoffed, shaking my head disapprovingly. "Are you drunk?"
He laughed, which, naturally, would've made me even angrier, but I found myself also smiling. "Yes, I am drunk. Just like you are beautiful. Tomorrow will be different though, because than, I'll be sober but you," he reached out to caress my cheek. "You will still be beautiful."
And then, his lips captured mine.
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Jay, she's one of the last remaining black werewolves, her raven-like coat distinguishes her rank: a Monarch, rightful heir to the throne. She hides in the Onyx Pack on the western border in California. She is known as the one who cannot shift, to withhold her secret and keep it safe.
Only, that is tested when The Hunter comes along and ruins everything.
A genetically unique but emotionally lost teenager must figure out who she is within her mixed-up, warring world of Shifters and Wolfstalkers.
*****
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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