"I despise your very living existence, why would I even want to kiss you?" , I asked like it was the most absurd thing ever.
His eyes shone with a glint of amusement "Because, you want to."
"like hell-" I was cut short when his lips crashed on mine, moving gently and he grazed his teeth on my lips, almost tauntingly. When we pulled back, I looked him in the eye and I felt ecstatic. "I hate you, Roman Brookhart."
Although we were in two different worlds, if ever our worlds clashed, I know it would be a dark, but colourful image of a beautiful life.
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Hydrid Baldwin was different. She was the unknown type of different. All her life she had to keep herself locked up. Her sister did know about this, and she was the only person that did and she loved,trusted and cared for her until somebody killed her. The living creature inside her, became dark, ready to draw blood.
Little did she know, Roman Brookhart was the cause of it.
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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