"ALEX, Run" my mom pleads with tears filling her eyes "run far far away and whatever you do DON'T look back"
"B-b-ut I can't, I can't just leave you, dad, our home" I sob "please don't make me" I plea, but my mom doesn't listen, instead she wipes the tears from her eyes and begins to pack my backpack for me
"You don't understand the alpha of the blood moon pack is a ruthless killer" she says while shoving my clothes into my backpack"He'll find you let his men have their way with you then skin you alive, you must leave its the only way" She says.
Before I can even reply and explain to her why I need to stay my fathers beta, Jack bursts into the room, red faced and out of breath "their here." he says with a look of fear plastered on his face.
"Quick take this" my mom says while shoving the backpack into my hands
"take the back way out" then she grabs my face in her soft delicate hands "and remember Alexandria, we love you"
and with that I was off.
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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