In the sleepy town of Pine Hollow, the Parker family seems picture-perfect: John, a former military man turned mechanic, and Leah, a local high school counselor, have just adopted three teenagers in an act of compassion and love. Each child comes from a dark, fractured past-yet none of them realize they're bound together by fate far more sinister than coincidence.
There's Angie, beautiful, mysterious, with a hunger she can't explain. Her memories are shadows, her strength unnatural, and every night the thirst grows. Then there's Simon, quiet, brooding, plagued by violent dreams and a bloodline that howls in his veins. Found near a massacre site and raised by nuns, he doesn't know he's the last of a werewolf pack exterminated in a secret war.
And finally, Jervis, the golden boy with no powers, no trauma-just the biological son of the Parkers' late best friends. Smart, loyal, grounded. But in a house haunted by secrets and primal instincts, being normal might be the most dangerous thing of all.
As the trio enters Pine Hollow High, strange events unravel: mutilated animals, missing students, strange dreams, and a mysterious old man watching from the woods. When Angie's urges awaken during a blood drive, and Simon begins transforming under the full moon, everything explodes. And someone-maybe even Jervis-is hiding a truth that will turn their already fragile new family into either a pack... or prey.
But Pine Hollow has deeper roots. The town was built on something ancient. And someone is hunting them all.
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It is by Mene's word that new age has been born, a new world
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Ezekiel Ruiz was unwillingly stuck between two worlds. He was a wild and that was where he found the most comfort, lost in the darkness while his wolf took over. But Amelia's Blessing had his wolf barring the darkness from him, refusing him his familiar comfort, the compulsion to find the viper he mated to screaming without the pain to drown it out.
At times he felt like the blessing was a curse.
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Change is always hard, and it is in our nature as wolves to fight it
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Julieta Esperanza Valentina Cruz had always played by the rules, it was what she had been taught, it was what was fair. She had lived by them. Except that doesn't work when others refuse to play fair. Her brother's best friend banished from the pack, a fight but not. Then the moon saw fit to pair her with the victor and the world showed just how unfair it could be.
Banished from her home, struggling to survive in a world that felt callous and cruel, Julieta struggled to hold onto hope but as the years dragged on it got harder and harder. Her hope disappeared entirely when the illegal rogues found her and took her.
Sometimes she wished Mene's love wasn't so brutal.
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But Mene guides us in our lives, listen to her loving whispers, she never gives us more than we can withstand
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A singular night changes everything. Ezekiel makes a choice that topples his world into the clinging dredges of the past and Julieta comes face to face with a male she had once had a foolish little crush on what feels like lifetimes ago.
However as they navigate the treacherous waters they have been flung into, they both learn that home is not a simple place, it's where you make it, and who you make it with.
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You will reach your destiny, Mene wills it.
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