"Hey," His eyebrows creased;he frowned deeply, "what's wrong? Why are you crying?"
I sniffed and went to wipe my eyes, but he beat me to it, gently running his thumb over the salty tear. "Why did you say that?"
"Say what?" Confusion evident in his voice.
Shakily, turned to him fully. "People call me a lot of things. Stupid, Waste of space, whore, and the list goes on but you-"I trailed off.
He didn't say anything so I continued. "you, Nikolaus Webb, are the first person to ever say I'm beautiful."
Nik scooted closer to me and cupped the side of my face.
He looked up and stared into my eyes with something that was foreign to me.
Love.
"That, Abigail Jacobs, is because you are beautiful. Inside and out." And sealed my lips with his, and into a passionate kiss.
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Abigail Jacobs is your average teenager. She loves music, hates school, and is extremely stubborn. But has dark secrets..
One summer after noon that all changed when she meets bad boy Nikolaus Webb.
Good or bad?
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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