Some people may call me a burglar, robber, criminal. Others may say "Tora, I can't believe you stole that, you're my hero". I prefer to call myself 'a person who helps acquire and lower the prices of unaffordable and previously expensive objects, for a 'small' fee'. I had a booming business, many clients wishing for the acquisition of items rumoured to 'combat' the recently revealed supernatural part of the population. Humans, so naïve thinking we could be killed by an ancient weapon, really they're no different to new weapons, just more difficult to get a hold of.
My wonderful life changed, however, when he appeared. He shred my life to bits with one glance, and with a second put it all back together again. We both had secrets, and when they reveal themselves they could destroy us both.
I am Tora, and this is my story of life, love and destruction.
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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