Tainted Hearts 1

Fans of Vampire Diaries and Teen Wolf will love this!For five years, Gillian was missing. Five years in which she roamed the woods as a shapeshifter panther, driven by pain and guilt over her father's death. Now she returns—but the world has moved on without her.Her brother Matt struggles between relief and anger. Her mother no longer recognizes her. And Gillian herself feels the beast within her fighting for control. Human words are difficult for her, human feelings even more so. And then there are these dark thoughts that terrify her—violent fantasies that show her how thin the line between human and beast truly is. At the same time, the mysterious Iven appears in her life who seems to hold all the answers.A powerful novel about growing up between two worlds, about trauma and transformation, about the monsters we carry within us. Can Gillian find her way back to life—or will the darkness consume her?