"She'll be the packs downfall!"
"We created the problem ourselves"
"I didn't! Why should I lose my pack for you and her?!"
"Because I'm the only thing that's keeping you alive"
Hannah Malone is an orphan. That's her biggest label.
She's a pack warrior, an excellent tracker, working her way through college to get to university and study languages.
She's kind, loyal, funny and will kill without qualms. An almost perfect solider, if not for the burning desire for revenge that raged through her blood.
Tom Murray is a twin. His label is as the weak one, ten minutes too late but eight years too early.
He's the future beta, an advisor and thinker to most. He's been through university and is ready for the next stage in his life.
He's witty, rude, sarcastic and kind. His loyalty depends on his mood, the day and sometimes the weather. He can kill with ease, when he isn't keeping his twin alive.
Hannah and Tom never expected to cross paths this way. One hates, the other is full of hate, people worry it will be toxic. But no one will go against fate. Caught up in the age old game of pack rivalry, hierarchy and love, can both survive without destroying the other?
"This isn't Shakespeare, this isn't Romeo and Juliette. I won't throw myself on a sword for you and if you do, I'll dance on you"
A genetically unique but emotionally lost teenager must figure out who she is within her mixed-up, warring world of Shifters and Wolfstalkers.
*****
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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