"You are my Luna now, Amber. You belong to Moonshadow, to me." He was angry at my protests, and at being denied of what should be granted to him naturally. What was already granted. I could feel what he was feeling in such depth that all of it felt like an emotional shock. Nothing could have prepared me for this sudden impact of rush of emotions that this bond brought with itself.
I hesitated, torn between the rapid beating of my heart and the logical resistance in my mind. "Gideon, I can't just belong to someone like that. It's not how..."
He silenced me with a hungry kiss, his lips demanding and possessive. My initial resistance crumbled under the weight of his intensity. He pulled back, his eyes smouldering. "You're mine, and I'm not letting you go." His nails dug into the skin of my wrist, drawing out blood and again.
He saw what he did and instead of feeling remorse, he smirked.
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Amber's life took a turn when her beloved left her. She had hoped they'd be mates at 19, but Ian found someone else. Year after year, Amber lost hope in finding a mate, until she met him.
But was this new mate everything she hoped for? Could she let herself fall for him, especially since he's known for being the most ruthless of them all?
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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