Helen Kingsman wants nothing more than to finish high school and go off to college to start her own life, away from the strange little town she and her older brother lived in. But when her truck crashes on the way to her uncle's cabin and she ends up at the gates of an enchanted castle, her dreams all come to a halt. Not only is she lost in a strange land, with a very arrogant, hot tempered, attractive boy, but she is lost in a strange land, with a very arrogant, hot tempered, attractive boy, in another time period, with no way to get back to her brother. After a near death escape attempt, a full moon, and a romantic dance does she realize that her freedom was over rated.
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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