The Alpha of the Mystic Ice Pack is stepping down, and Lylah Aiken is stepping up to take her father's place. But to be accepted as the rightful Alpha of her pack, she must take part in the Alpha Games, an event that happens every five years. She's been training all her life for this moment, but when her eyes meet his, will she throw it all away?
Winston Garrett has been the leader of the Crimson Eclipse Pack for four years since his father passed. As the heir, the title was passed on to him. Since the beginning of his reign, he's ruled with an iron fist, but the threat of an uprising looms over his shoulders. In order to solidify his claim as the Alpha of his pack, he must participate in the upcoming Games. But when he finds her, he's almost tempted to give up everything he's worked for.
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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