After spending years in foster care jumping from house to house, state to state, for Emmery's Senior Year she moves to Eldridge - a town in the Acacia Pack territory. When she meets Saskia - an untouchable, confident athlete - Emmery's dreams of becoming a Vet are clouded with the irresistible haze of Saskia's attention. Emmery has never been tempted by a girl before, let alone one with a secret that she's determined to discover.
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As our hands met, sweet tingles settled deep in my chest. Her eyes stared intently at me, searing my skin where ever she looked.
"and you are?"
I stared at her plump lips as they curled upwards, a soft chuckle slipping from them.
"oh...um, Emmery"
I said shyly looking away, pulled from my trance. She stepped forward leaning close, her warm tantalising lips brushing the shell of my ear.
"you're so sweet it's cruel"
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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