Decimus Acisculus, now called Elyan Lace. He's old, very old, and he feel's it every single minute of every single day. He's lonely, and he's well aware of that fact. He's waited so long for his person, the one with whom he could whittle the long days and beautiful nights away with. Perhaps his hope has faded somewhat, but after a couple thousand years, who is he to hope? Who is he to grasp at the straws that fate holds for him? He is Decimus Acisculus, the first Vampire, the Master Necromancer, the Lord of Shadows... So why is he so shaken by this Lycan named Malek?
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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