It was the most surreal experience of my life, which was saying something considering everything I'd been through over the past several months. I'd gone from a college student afraid she was going to fail out of school to sitting in a mansion, surrounded by family I never knew existed with powers I never knew were possible.

I thought things like this only took place in the books I liked to read. Even back then, when I didn't know shifters were real, I was drawn to them. There was no ...