Skylar’s death came not at the end, after a long fulfilling
existence, not in the middle, as a result of an untimely tragic event—but at
the beginning, with her birth.
As a
final effort to save her dying unborn child, Skylar’s pregnant mother, a witch,
sacrificed herself by invoking a powerful spirit shade to inhabit Skylar’s
body, imbuing her with life. For twenty-three years, Skylar lived a life of
oblivion, content with her simple job, loving adoptive mother and the monthly
inconvenience of a full moon hangover after being sedated and caged when she
changed into a wolf. It wasn’t exciting but it was her life until one night,
she woke up in a strange room in the middle of rural Illinois—bruised and with
jumbled memories of her mother’s death from a vampire attack. The Midwest pack
comes to her rescue. Known for being more ruthless than altruistic she doesn’t
know if she can trust them.
But
after an assassination attempt by a necromancer, an abduction attempt by a mercenary, and more
aggressive and violent attacks by the vampires, she has no other choice but to
accept their help. The Midwest pack quickly discover that Skylar is the host to
a spirit shade, who gives her magical abilities, that make her as much of a
danger as an asset and that she is the key to the vampires’ plan to perform a
ritual that will give them unrestricted power. Tension rises as the pack become
divided between those who think her life is worth protecting as a potential
ally and those who believe she is too dangerous to live. In the end, Skylar
finds herself fighting for her life—a life that may be tragically taken too
soon.
