I desperately kicked my legs, fighting off the ice cold water, gasping for air, knowing that these few breaths would be my last. As the pain in my head slowly took over, I accepted my fate, allowing myself to drift away, into the icy darkness below that awaited me.
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Meet Larken Taylor, the girl who everyone believed was a freak. When she shifted into her werewolf at the orphanage she was raised in, everyone was terrified of her, believed that she was cursed and shunned her.
Without a friend in the world, Larken was thrilled when she discovered she was being adopted. That was, until they also found out that she was a wolf. They began abusing her, mentally and physically, leaving her skin covered with cigarrete burns and bruises, and her mind left to believe that she was worthless, ugly, and unwanted, as it was drilled into her head so many times. The only reason they kept her was for the money they received to take care of her, although it clearly wasn't spent on that. She was unwanted, hated, shunned, and treated as the absolute trash that she carried outside every day.
Until Hale, her mate, found her lying unconscious in a river. The catch? Larken now has amnesia.
As she slowly regains the memories of her abusive past, will they push her away from Hale? Or bring the mates even closer?
WARNING// Some scenes contain mature language, intimate scenes, abusive scenes, etc. Please read at your own risk!!
Book 1 of The Shadow Series.
Myths, that's what the humans called it, but for Ashe it quickly became her reality. Her life changing transformation narrowed her paths down to two;
She could either embrace her fates and save the people she's grown to love, or she can walk away and live a somewhat normal life while others suffer the consequences. How far is she willing to go to create peace where there's never been any? Will she even create peace? Or will she help encourage the most brutal war the Shadow Realms have ever experienced?
Several years of Asheland's childhood had disappeared from her memory. She assumed it was her brain trying to protect her from a traumatic event, although that's true it's not exactly what she expected and her brain wasn't necessarily the cause. After being homeless until she was sixteen years old, then living in a boat dock for four years, she had finally found her home in a cottage in the near-by mountains of Wolf Creek. Everything seemed to be going well. However, as a list of secrets begin unraveling when Ashe gives in to her overwhelming urges to visit the island that terrified almost every citizen in Wolf Creek, her life becomes more complicated than she could've ever imagined. All of this just because she was turning twenty-one. Nothing was as it had ever seemed.
* excerpt from the book *
{ "Why do you make such reckless, impulsive decisions?" The old man asked as we watched the moon.
"The world could end tomorrow and everyone expects me to live in fear today? There's no life to live inside the box of fear, there's no freedom in there," I replied softly. }