BOOK 1

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## **Characters**

Caliana Hart

Lola (Aliyah) Spillane

Xavier Evers

Colton Evers

Lilac & Violet

Jay

Maya

Rival Pack: Alpha, Beta, Leon/Leroy, Tyson, Levi, Frank, 2 unnamed

Xavier's (Redwood) Pack: Cillian, Len

## **Synopsis**

On summer break after their junior year in college (mentioned in 1-ch 51 she has one year of college left) Cali & Lola are introduced. They live in Minnesota in their two story one bathroom apartment. They discuss Cali’s lack of funds (only $16.76 in her bank account) while she has an increasing need to pay for rent, school, and help with her mother’s medical bills. Lola suggests a website that can sell Cali’s virginity in order to make money. Lola is able to set up Cali with a mystery man who pays a $400,000 bid for Cali’s virginity - where she states she placed a profile for toxic rich guys on a website. The mystery man (Colton) also pays for both the girls' airplane ticket and they both end up on a trip to Oregon (1-ch 6) with an hour and a half car drive at 11 pm for about one and a half to two weeks. There they meet up with Colton who says he actually purchased Cali as a present for his brother Xavier.

This is the beginning of the girls imprisonment to the brother's house, and the relationship between Cali and Xavier. Upon their meeting, he scratches her neck with his nail, threatens her if she ever disrespects the brothers again, looks at her like a piece of dirt, and swiftly kicks her out of his room. On day 4 at 2 am, he grabs her by the wrists while she was asleep in her room, guides her to his room where he throws her on the bed, demands she strip, verbally degrades her, and then demands her to leave. Later that same day, he yells at the girls saying they need permission to go outside, calls Cali an idiot, and threatens to have her sleep outside unless she does as he says because she is staying at his house.

He hauls her over his shoulder and drops her twice (1-ch13), grabs the collar of her top to pull her up in kneeling position - roughly. He then calls her a whore and a slut; stating she is not special just easy which makes her cry.

He threatens to sacrifice Cali to the pack of the wolves they killed; reveals that because she is human they will want to kill her. He chokes her and threatens to crush her throat (1-ch 30) which leaves marks so that Lola notices them, which makes Cali cry. The marks remain until the girls attempt to escape and is referred to again at the airport when Lola removes the scarf Cali is wearing to cover them up.

Xavier and Cali then make a bet that if she can arouse him, she wins her and Lola’s freedom. However, if she fails, Xavier gets to keep her. Able to get him to realize his attraction, she wins the bet, but questions his bipolar attitude of running hot then cold. Realizing the truth in this, he attempts to leave her room, where she jumps on his back naked. Colton walking by sees this, interrogates the two back into the room, where they lock the door, and tell Colton to go back to bed. In the morning, Xavier says she is free to go, and that Colton can take them to the airport. But, Cali refuses, stating that she wants to stay. However, two wolves from the rival pack appear and attack the group, in which Cali runs the opposite direction, and ends up caught by another wolf. She is taken to the rival pack house and meets Maya and the Alpha. She escapes and meets up with Lola who turns out to also be able to shift into a wolf. Xavier appears to fight with the Alpha until his wolf reappears.

## **Cultural References**

-Movie “Taken” is mentioned (ch1) regarding sex trafficking.

-Website Craigslist is mentioned (ch2) for Cali thinking about looking for odd jobs.

-App Tinder is mentioned (ch2) when inner monologue about becoming a sex worker.

-YouTube website mentioned (ch2) when Lola decides to give Cali a makeover; watches makeup artist videos.

-Starbucks is mentioned (ch3) when Alex suggests Cali get a job at the mall.

-McDonald’s is mentioned (ch3) when Alex reminisces about their date and Cali trying the new McFlurry.

-Skype is mentioned (ch4) when Lola sets up the mystery man who bid on Cali’s virginity.

-Catfish the TV show is mentioned (ch4) when Cali purposely stays off camera during Skype call as well as not immediately seeing who the mystery man is.

-PayPal is mentioned (ch4) when Colton offers to directly pay the amount to their account once agreed to the deal.

-Slenderman mentioned (ch8) when Lola teases Cali for being afraid of the woods.

-TBH per Lola’s spoken words to Cali (ch9); an acronym used as social media slang for to be honest.

-Buzzfeed is mentioned (ch9) when Cali and Lola watch YouTube videos of people making quick recipes from this website.

-Crash Bandicoot is mentioned (ch 17) as the t-shirt Cali wears

-Twilight franchise is mentioned (ch 19) when Cali monologues Count Dracula and Edward Cullen as an explanation for finding out about werewolves.

-Speedy Gonzales is what Lola calls Cali (ch 23) when running back to the house because she was out of breath while Cali’s was normal.

-Harry Potter is mentioned (ch 24) when Cali admits she only saw the first 2-3 Twilight movies but was more into the Harry Potter movies.

-Google Maps mentioned (ch 27) when Lola tells Cali the plan on escaping the house is to find the closest proper road.

-Sherlock Holmes mentioned (ch 27) as Lola jokes Cali is too busy solving the mystery of the brother’s past. Cali then says the same thing to Xavier when he says he thinks she’s being sarcastic.

-Rescue Remedy mentioned (ch 30) where Lola slips this homeopathic blend into the brother’s hot chocolate drinks to aid them in falling asleep

-PornHub website mentioned (ch 40) when Cali monologues that she had watched porn as an experiment.

-Captain Obvious (ch 54) Cali calls Colton this when he tries to remind her that Xavier is the Alpha