I fantasize about this synopsis landing me a book deal for my YA novel.

Evelyn Wells is a teenage wallflower from Cody, Wyoming. She’s not used to getting any kind of attention, but the development of her bust and hips are beginning to get her some.

The new school principal, Arthur Evans, isn’t the only newbie in town. The entire school is buzzing about the appearance of his twin children, Blaire and Dominic. Everyone has eyes for them, but Dominic only has eyes for Evelyn.

Dominic extends an invitation to Evelyn and her two best friends to attend Austin Ford’s party. At the party, the love birds get split up. Austin offers Evelyn help in finding Dominic, but rather than offer her support, he attacks her.

Mid-attack Evelyn’s boiling blood and fight-or-flight response triggers an otherworldly transformation. She morphs into a monstrous wolf, enabling her to fend off her aggressor.

The following days, Evelyn rummages through her late mother’s possessions to understand what’s happening to her. Clues lead her to Osprey Falls, where she meets a witch, Lanelle, who is an ally and a friend to the wolves.

Before she can learn too much, Lanelle gets a vision of danger headed for Evelyn and demands she run straight home. That’s when a tracker from The Forge captures Evelyn and ships her off to the lab. In and out of consciousness, Evelyn is brutally beaten to heal members of The Forge.

Shelby Adley, one of the cocktail waitresses from The Forge lounge, aids Evelyn’s escape. Evelyn learns that Shelby is an undercover wolf and a friend of her mother’s. Under the condition she walks away from the shapeshifting world, Evelyn learns all about The Forge and her mother’s hidden past.

Evelyn begins to get back into the swing of a normal life, when Shelby shows up to inform her that her mother, Nora, is in fact alive. The Forge had staged Nora’s death and had been keeping her prisoner. Shelby and Evelyn join forces and devise a plan that includes Lanelle and magic.

Lanelle summons wolves from the surrounding area with the reigning moonstone. Evelyn is shocked to see many familiar faces, including Blaire, Dominic’s sister. The wolves agree to unite and to break Nora free from the grasp of elitists from The Forge, where the girls learn Blaire and Dominic’s father is the mastermind behind the entire operation.

After the pack rescues Nora, they have to prepare themselves for their next battle. Arthur has fled Wyoming with the twins’ mother with intentions of using her for wolf research and treatments.

The injured wolves pull strings to find his location and travel to Helena, Montana. There, they meet a local pack full of colorful characters. The two packs unify to free the imprisoned wolves. Arthur puts a wrinkle in their plan by injecting Dominic with an unknown elixir that transforms him into a vampire.

Blaire pulls the trigger of an antique gun, killing her father. The pack stands behind Dominic, who needs to come to terms with the life changing events his father initiated. Evelyn and the other wolves welcome him into their family of supernaturals.

"Tick Tock," talks the clock. Seconds, minutes, hours travel so quickly past me that the energy of their force keeps me glued to this shabby old couch.

A sea of threads, another hollow response, an internal chuckle. A sip of water, a now jagged fingernail, a glance at the clock that continues to talk.

Why do I listen to you with your every tick, your every tock? I am sure there are far more enticing things to do than sit here letting you mock.

You come and go, as you please. I sit. I wait. The same passersby count down the minutes until you walk through the door. The mean woman runs slowly past our yard. "Smile!" I bark. She ignores my call. The man and his two small humans slowly pass by me. "Hello!" I bark. In high pitched tones, they call back to me. Birds swoop into our trees. Bunnies nibble on our grass. A sip of water. A little snooze. You're home at last!

When I was a small girl, my mother took me to the corner bake shop. “A cookie or a doughnut?” she asked. I looked at the doughnut with its missing center. I looked at the round cookie in its complete form. “I’ll have the doughnut, mama!”

You see, I chose the doughnut, because like that doughnut, I felt empty, too.