Alice is a girl like any other. She's beautiful, she's quiet, and she has a certain way a life she's used to. That is, her beauty is that of a caged bird, her silence has lasted around half a decade, and she's been in an insane asylum for the past ten years. She's surrounded by doctors and meds, but neither seems to be doing much in the way of helping. The voice in her head just can't seem to keep its trap shut, and she's accepted her fate, trapped in that colorless room, doomed to stare out a window at the forest she feels drawn to. Never allowed to touch what she yearns for. But when a young man finds her, he has a different opinion of her destiny. He tells her she's not only sane but also quite normal. Well, normal for what she is. He says that she's not the only person with a voice in their head and that she's been incorrectly diagnosed. He says she's perfectly ordinary, but when odd things start happening around her he might have to amend that statement. Where he's from, girls aren't born with the abilities that she so easily finds within herself.
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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