I would like to thank As Hearts Collide, my lovely beta, for being just plain awesome!
Preface
I never thought this could happen to anyone, let alone me. My life was normal. I grew up on the Quileute reservation, I had a normal family, and I had a few friends. Like every other normal person on the Rez, I grew up with stories. Legends, bedtime stories and books. Tribal legends taught me of the wolf descendants and the Cold Ones. My family was said to be the descendants of shape shifters… I never believed the legends, but now I know that I should have.
Everyone grows up knowing of the infamous Dracula and the notorious Apollo Lycaeus. These figures start as things you're afraid of, the monsters that hide under your bed, but as you grow they turn into just objects of entertainment, fictional characters that are no more frightening to you than a thunderstorm. I know better though. I've learned to only believe in what you see, not in what you've heard. I know now that they are much more that just fictional characters.
Vampires are really a secret reality, stalking the earth hungrily, endangering innocent people and shape shifters are not just Quileute legends but the people who would save me in the end, the people who I had known my entire life. I never knew I would be the one caught up in a fairytale.
But then again, there was a lot I didn't know about myself.
This was short, I know, but that is just because it is the preface. The actual chapters will be much longer.