'A goddess on a mountain top
Was burning like a silver flame,
The summit of beauty and love,
Her weapon were her crystal eyes
Making every man mad,
Black as a dark night she was,
Got what no one else had.
And Venus was her name.'
Venus Callisto's odd and unusual name basically described her. Venus, meaning goddess of beauty, Callisto, meaning sweet, kind and most beautiful. Though, nothing about her, to her or anyone else in the town River Peak; Which was in the middle of nowhere; thought she was inhuman.
Well that is, until she is kidnapped and finds herself in Texas, a place fulled of different mythical beings. Including a few gods. ;)
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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