Aylesha King is a freshly bitten werewolf brought into the world of Ashstone Middle School, and it's pack, Ashstone pack. As she finds her way, she meets one of the more mysterious members of the pack - but it's not the Alpha that has her attention.
Meet the Beta of the Ashstone pack - Dakota Barhymn. Wanting to take over the pack as the future Alpha, he's mysterious, holds a secret, and most of all - a weredingo, something rarer in high ranks. He's also insanely attractive, but so are his many Deltas that reign the pack of Ashstone.
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"So. You're a freshly bitten, are you?" he said, his blue eyes striking a gaze into mine, not leaving my sight.
"And what's my business as a freshly bitten got to do with you?" I replied, a little annoyed he was trying to pry into my life.
"I'm Dakota. Dakota Barhymn. You probably know me as the Beta of the pack. And I think you'll be quite at home here. In my pack." He got up close, holding my face in one hand, his face close to mine. "Just so you know - I make the rules here. And you'll have a lot to do with me, kiddo."
He was the fabled Beta everyone warned me about.
I had no idea what I was in for.
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This is the first book in the Ashstone series. Updates every Monday!
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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