Six babes taken,
To hide the true king's heir.
Six children hidden,
To possibly the crown bare.
No son nor daughter identities be known,
For all of the six are nameless
And were taken from their home.
He is one of The Keepers of Kings. An elite guard sworn to protect the royal family, and after the massacre, tasked with finding the six children whose bodies were never found.
She was imprisoned for an infection of the blood that could curse her very soul. Empowered by the violent shadow that lives in the recesses of her mind, now she's on the run and fighting to survive.
When their paths cross, Raoul is convinced that Daciana is one of the missing children that vanished without a trace fifteen years ago, and possibly the heir to throne. Only a series of trials will be able to determine if she's one of the five decoys, or the sixth child that they've so desperately been hoping is alive.
But not everyone is prepared to accept her, and as if the trials weren't dangerous enough, someone is determined to make sure that she doesn't survive them.
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]]