Accelerando: a musical term used as an indication to pick up the tempo or speed.
Celaena Bass only grew up knowing one thing: she was born to be on stage. At a young age, both her parents died leaving her to be brought up by a foster family since age 2. Fast forward 18 years later and she's an international super star on her very own world tour. Every night, she gets to live her dream and do what she loves while making other people happy. Her life was perfect. That is, until her London show.
Prince Calvin Accelerando knew everything growing up: he was born to be Alpha King and rule the werewolf world with justice. Everything about his life, from his clothes to his schedule each day, had been mapped out since birth. Now, at age 21, its finally time for him to take the title of Alpha King. There's just one problem: he hasn't found his queen. That is, until he goes to a concert one night.
From their first meeting, it seemed like these two were perfect for each other. They were each other's harmonies to their melodies. But, danger always seems to follow happiness and now, Celaena has another prince dying to get his fangs on her for reasons unknown to, well, everyone.
And just like Calvin's last name, their lives are about to pick up speed and take a sudden turn into an unknown future.
Note: You do not have to read the first book Wilde to follow and understand this story. Although some of the characters are from that book.
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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