Werewolves, what if I told you they were real, and I was one.
My family has been Werewolves since the beginning of the creature itself. My father is the Alpha of our pack, The Lunar Shadows. I, Ember, am the eldest along with my twin brother, Obsidian. After us my parents had 6 other children. My sister, Aurora. My brother, Gabriel. Another brother, Shade. A fourth brother, Asher. My youngest sister, Clove. And finally my youngest brother, Balor.
I am the family outcast, in multiple ways. First in my appearance, I have pale skin, bright orange hair, and caramel eyes. Where my family has dark skin, black hair, and dark brown eyes. Second in my shifting, most wolves shift near, on, or during the month of their 17th birthday. I will be turning 20 in 2 days, which is the 16th of September, and I still haven't shifted. Third in my troubles, my family have never had to deal with a non-shifter. I, being the twin to come out a minute and 27 seconds before Obsidian, to be the next Alpha.
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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