From his earliest memories, Jake Rivera had harbored an insatiable curiosity about his family's obscured lineage. Born into a household where inquiries into their ancestry were met with guarded responses and veiled glances, Jake often felt like an outsider peering in on a secret world.
Yet, it wasn't until a fateful night draped in the ominous cloak of darkness that Jake's world was irrevocably altered. Tragedy struck as Jake's cherished friend Hazel, her radiant spirit a beacon of warmth in his life, fell victim to the deadly clutches of a vampire's grasp. The air was thick with sorrow, Jake's heart shattered as he bore witness to the unthinkable.
Amidst the shroud of grief enveloping him, Jake's senses erupted with a primal intensity, unveiling a truth he could scarcely comprehend: he was a werewolf. Shocked and bewildered, he grappled with the magnitude of this revelation, his mind spinning with a maelstrom of emotions.
As the moon bathed him in its ethereal glow, Jake's instincts surged to life, coursing through him with newfound potency. But alongside his burgeoning abilities came a sobering realization: the world he knew was a mere facade, concealing a hidden realm teeming with darkness and danger.
Haunted by guilt and fueled by a relentless desire for justice, Jake knew that he could not rest until he avenged his cousin's death and unraveled the dark mysteries that bound him to the world of the supernatural. Will Jake's determination to honor her memory lead him to confront the darkest secrets of his primal state, or will the truth prove more than he can bear?
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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