'“Did you really think that you would have a chance with me? Sorry honey, I don’t date preschoolers.” And with those words, she crushed my heart into mere pieces of clay. Broken, Shattered, and Lifeless. I wondered what kind of God could do such a thing. What kind of being would let me be rejected-again, but this time by my own mate. As I stood there, drowning in my pain and agony, I watched as my best friend kiss my mate, and then-I broke. I shifted, and ran into the dark woods that were now my home. Knowing Amber’s father, he would probably exile me for even thinking about her. The world’s fear, My refuge.'
Zachary 'Zachy' Payne is the definition of a Nerd. He's probably smarter than your maths teacher, and he's in Year 11. He's all about his future, and his future universities, but he's always been denied. Whether it's for exams, scholarship tests, our auditions for chess teams. On his 17th birthday, he meets his mate for the first time. The popular and beautiful Amber Williams. She rejects him-to sleep around. She rejects him-and sleeps with his best friend. She rejects him-and he breaks. He runs away to Nyx Forest, the only place that werewolves don't dwell. This is the story of Zach Payne, and the pain of his rejection...
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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