Ryder is a rouge, who doesn't want the luxury of living in a home, or having technology. She thinks the world is turning into a horrible place, and prefers to keep to herself in the small forest in Shadow Wood. She wants the quaint and quiet forest to herself, and has had so for the past seven years. She wants to be able to read in peace, and doesn't want her mate, even though he wants her. She doesn't need or want anyone, but someone doesn't want to be forgotten.
That someone, is the annoying, Alpha.
Alpha Sasha, who's been searching for Ryder all his life...
And he won't let her go so easy.
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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