the girl who cried wolf|Wattys 2015

“It was the coldest winter Crescent Falls had ever experienced. I remembered the way the cold seeped through my shirt from the snow. I don’t remember being afraid, or crying, or screaming; that is until I felt the teeth digging into my arm. I wasn’t cold anymore, but warm. The last thing I saw was a pair of bright silver eyes.”
Everyone knows Lucy Lysonburg as the girl who cried wolf. The winter she turned ten, she wandered off too far in the woods of her backyard. It was five hours later when she was found bleeding to death in the woods; her wrist bitten badly. With all the blood loss, it was a miracle she survived.
Now an anxiety ridden fifteen year old, Lucy struggles to maintain some kind of normality as the never ending story of her rescue plays on and on. But there’s nothing normal about the changes Lucy begins to experience shortly after her sixteenth birthday and when Mason Dubois transfers to her school with his family, things get even stranger.