"Phoenix! I am marking my mate tonight. There is no place for you in my life," he looked me in the eye and pointed at the door.
"After you forcefully marked me, you know damn well even if I want, I cannot leave," tears ran down my eyes as I realized it will only get worse after tonight.
"I didn't mark you for myself, so you are free to go," he shrugged his shoulders as if he felt nothing for me.
...
Phoenix was always unloved and untrusted by her family. Trying to overcome the trauma of being harassed at a young age, she endeavored to become the best warrior there is to protect herself and her pack. Only to have everything stripped away from her.
Losing her mate, her father, and then her wolf, she had been stripped away from everything and caged by the most ruthless Alpha King the world has ever known. Like her name, will she be able to burn and rise from the ashes or lose herself forever in the hatred of Alpha King Aramis? Will the ruthless Alpha King ever let go of the past and accept Phoenix as his mate? Follow on their journey to find out.
A genetically unique but emotionally lost teenager must figure out who she is within her mixed-up, warring world of Shifters and Wolfstalkers.
*****
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.
[[word count: 70,000-80,000 words]]