"A rogue, unmated she-wolf was like catnip to other wolves and Hunters alike. Other wolves would love a quick bang with a she-wolf, although rape would be preferable compared to the unnatural coldness and psychotic glee of Hunters' torture methods. I had grown up with my older brother Colton's endless warnings of how dangerous other rogues and pack wolves were to us, and it was best to keep moving and to watch our backs. I had taken his words to heart, although a small part of my soul longed for the united feel of a pack.
I tried to crush that down as best as I could."
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Nineteen year old Cecilia Joel has been a rogue for a majority of her life, ever since her pack had been killed off by an enemy pack years ago. She has never fully accepted the life of a rogue, and craves the life of a pack. She has her brothers, although one is always out in the human world, trying to make a living, and the other couldn't care less about her.
Her prayers may be answered when one of her brothers meets his mate in Haven, the strongest pack in the Northern Hemisphere, and she meets her own mate in the form of the rogue-despising Alpha Marcus Ryan.
It doesn't take long before everything crashes and burns, leaving no one unscathed.
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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