Imagine being told since your were born stories of beasts in the woods by your house. Cassandra Theresa Hale grew up in a small, isolated town surrounded by the vast woods. Her town was a very tight knit community, and every year they held a bonfire. The elders of the town would tell the legends of the woods, tales of giant beasts lurking around the forest. Of course, these are just stories. No one believes them...
But, Cassandra is very watchful. She starts to notice some very peculiar things. Like, for instance, no one ever goes into the woods, literally nobody... When Cassandra's parents die in a car wreck she is devastated. Living with her grandmother, she feels like a part of her is missing. So, she packs a bag and heads out of town, in hope of finding some peace in the woods for a while. But, Cassie may be in a little over her head when she sees the mysterious beast in the woods.
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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