I was always known as the loser, the loner, the nerd, the strange one, the one with the problems, the DIFFERENT one. Getting beaten up was a daily thing for me, people thought it was funny. No one understood, no one was there, no one would try to be, no one cared. I was the girl who just ignored life and hid beneath her books, the girl who always tried to avoid everyone, the girl who was shown no love. I snuck through my first year of high school, I had the best of friends, we were inseparable, we were practically joined by the hip but when I turned 16 everything changed.
I had shifted into something I feared. I became friendless and lonely. I was now the girl who was different, different than everyone else.
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Logan Knight has been bullied and abused ever since she first shifted. People didn't take the concept that she was unique very well, instead of bringing her up they brought her down, hard. She thought she was messed up, she was useless, she believed what everyone had told her. Growing up without a mother was a cold hard smack on the face from her heartbroken father, he had no other way to let out his depression but anger and hate.
An idea struck her one night while she was lying in bed staring at her mother's old photos, she remembered what her mother used to say 'Never stay anywhere you feel unwanted, instead surround yourself with people who will make you feel better.' But to make her idea come to life it meant leaving her life in her dust.
Surround yourself with people who will make you feel better, huh? Well, that's exactly what she did. New friends, a new house, a new life. Fresh start. But she meets someone she's always been destined to and her life flips upside down. This one person plays with her destiny and ends up unleashing something not even Logan can control. But never in a million years did she see herself this happy. She was always the sad loser, being different was supposed to be bad wasn't it?
But then again normal is boring.
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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