"I don't want to be a substitution for your departed wife, but if it means I have the chance of making you fall in love with me then I'll be it-I'll be your little substitution."
When Liam Sanders, alpha of the Sanders-Flores Pack, lost his beloved wife, he shattered: he was constantly depressed, constantly moody, and constantly bedridden as a result his rapidly declining health and lack of energy. And after two years of dealing with this shell of an alpha, the Sanders-Flores Pack was ready to overthrow him-that is, until they stumble upon Kai, an omega with amnesia who came from the nearby sea.
An omega who brought Liam out of his depression and returned the alpha to his previous, top-notch status.
However, after Liam finally returns to normal, catastrophe strikes again when Liam discovers Kai's more than just a simple omega and a good friend-he is none other than Liam's mate. Determined to stay loyal to his deceased wife, Liam fights off all of Kai's advances while also fighting his own instincts.
But as the mate bond between the alpha and omega demands intimacy, and Kai's sinister past comes back to haunt them, Liam must decide who's more important: the dead or the living?
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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