~ 3 Years earlier~ "RUN!! ELIZA! ELIZA RUN!" My father screamed at me, I watched as the rouges attack are pack. The pack that one day I was supposed to lead. The pack I grew up in. My Beautiful pack. I shifted and ran threw the woods. Blocking the screams, they were all going to die and I know I should help, but I have other priorities. After running for four hours I stop and lay beneath a tree panting, I look down at my stomach, my pups were in there. My baby's. My two little angels, because of them I ran. It's my job to protect them, that is what I did. They were coming soon I could feel it. I was due a week ago and they Haven't came yet, I guess I should go find somewhere to shelter. And steal some clothes. I ran away from the town clothes hanging from my mouth, I stole them from a women's washing line. Sad I know. I quickly shifted and changed into the outfit, it was big on me but really I was glad for the warmth. I curl up under a tree and close my eyes, and then I feel it. The wetness between my legs, and the sudden cramp filling my body. My water just broke. I Eliza wood, 13 years of age. Am about to give birth to two baby's, alone, in the woods. Oh how fun.
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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