For Kayla Morgan there is nothing shameful about falling for your teacher. She accepts the torrid passion growing between them and knows that he yearns for it too but there's a darkness in his eyes. He has painful secrets, hesitation over her and reservations about just how possible it is for their affair to survive but she's determined to prove just how strong she and they can be.

Ethan Mikkelsen is restless and needs a change. With this new school year beginning in a new town far from his trouble, he's planning on submersing himself in everything but his issues across the country. He doesn't get far though when a girl catches his eye and he can't help but think she sees everything he's trying to hide. He has no time for a relationship, not with his mounting problems and especially not when that same girl sits three seats back from the front of his class.

It's hard being something your not, even more impossible is being something you hate. Especially when you have no choice, no options and no way out. It's hell.

I was raised with the knowledge that one day I'd change. Werewolf. Predator. Violence. It's a cage. One that every year has gotten smaller, tighter. Suffocating me with the awareness that once I become one of them things will be expected of me.

Then it happened and my life became darkness. Pack battles. Mates. Alphas. Dominance. Submission. Death. It's an endless cycle, one that owns your life after you change. Fighting and violence. Anger and rage. Death and mourning. Sometimes it's all I can do not to scream.

I never wanted this. I begged and pleaded silently for freedom from this duty, from a cursed I never deserved. I've lost so much to this world. Love, family, innocence. I want out. Now I wonder if it's even possible to free myself from it.

Chapter Key (Chapter One and on):

"Normal speech." -This will be your normal conversational speech seen in this chapter.

"Irregular speech." -This speech pattern is used in conjunction with speech in dreams, speech remembered from the past, etc.

"Signing speech." -This speech will be bolded when Julianna, her mother or any given character uses Sign Language to speak.