River Vonetta has been in an emotional funk for the past week over the sudden disappearance of her boyfriend of two years, Raphael Manson. But when Raphael finally comes back to town (without notifying her of course), River will soon wish that he would have stayed gone. Because ever since his reappearance she soon uncovers all of the lies that Raphael has been feeding her ever since the day they met and the lies only continue to pile up as she gets caught up in Raphael's hidden world and treacherous scheme, which all leads to the ultimate betrayal. The boy who she had fallen in love with and once thought she knew everything about is all of a sudden this stranger that she doesn't recognize.
But to her dismay, Raphael's sudden madness is the least of her problems. Seems as if the lies even hit close to home, by her father, who has kept the dark secrets about her mother hidden for years. All of it starts with ancient venom and the demons that lurk through River's very own family tree. And without her knowledge, those demons have already claimed her life as theirs, predestining her future, not as family, but as their prisoner. It will take mounds of courage to fight not only for the truth, but for her and her mother's freedom as well.
And the only people that are able to help her are a group of mystical creatures, who are all led by the choleric and reserved, but incredibly sexy Roland. And cause for the undeniable, heated attraction between River and Roland turns out to be more than what she bargained 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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