When I finally grow bold enough to break free of my chains, I stumble right into the most unlikely of places--the lands of my apparent fated, and he's got danger written all over him. He's unfairly attractive, possessive, and dominant in ways I find confusingly alluring, and also...gentle.
The more I try to ignore our bond, the more I seem to fall into his gravity.
But his pack wants nothing to do with me, and solidifying our mating bond will destroy a magic in me that is key to finding my family. It's only made worse when an old, awakening magic whispers to help me...but only if I leave my fated. Who in the hell can I trust in a world I barely know, especially with people I just met?
All I wanted was a simple life in the woods, not this chaotic mess of carnal desires, obligations, and choices so hard to make that I am sure it will damn near kill me.
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🥈2ND PLACE Boba Awards - Werewolf
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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