If I thought his eyes had been burning before, they were nothing to the pair that now stared at me. Now this, was an attraction. Pure, lust driven, wham-bam-thank you mam, attraction. And boy was I in way over my head.

Marlene Dawson, a girl defined by her abusive parents, has grown up unwanted and unloved in the world since she was five. With no friends, terrible parents, and no one to lean on, Marlene can't wait to just skip town. But, as a certain wolf worms his way into her life she starts to want a future. And it includes him. [tw]

Lena Fawling was born and raised in La Push in a small house with both her parents and her 4 younger siblings. Embry Call is her long-term boyfriend, whom everyone believes she will marry someday. Paul Lahote is her idiot neighbor and sort-of friend. And then one day, quite suddenly, Paul is something more to her, and she doesn't know why. *Rating has changed from T to M*