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    Marked By Destiny: Hidden Secrets Saga, #3
    Marked By Destiny: Hidden Secrets Saga, #3
    Marked By Destiny: Hidden Secrets Saga, #3
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    Marked By Destiny: Hidden Secrets Saga, #3

    By W.J. May

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    The highly anticipated sequel to Seventh Mark by USA Today Bestselling author, W.J. May

    Marked By Destiny, book III in the Hidden Secrets Saga.   

     

    Sometimes the past isn't what you expect it to be.   

     

    Rouge has survived the last months of school and is starting a new chapter after graduation. She wants answers to the questions about her past and is still hiding secrets from those she loves.   

     

    Her hope is to find what she needs in Niagara Falls so she can move forward in her relationship with Michael and have a chance to convince his family that she is worthy of him.   

     

    The ancient Grollic -werewolf- Book reveals another of its secrets, again only to Rouge. She has been scared to study the book and continues to find excuses not to.   

     

    Rouge desperately wants to find the truth about her past. Nothing could have prepared her for what she's about to learn.

     

    Hidden Secrets Saga:

    Seventh Mark - Part 1
    Seventh Mark - Part 2
    Marked by Destiny
    Compelled
    Fate's Intervention
    Chosen Three

    PROPHECY SERIES
    Only the Beginning
    White Winter
    Secrets of Destiny

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDark Shadow Publishing
    Release dateOct 8, 2014
    ISBN9781502248947
    Marked By Destiny: Hidden Secrets Saga, #3
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    W.J. May

    About W.J. May Welcome to USA TODAY BESTSELLING author W.J. May's Page! SIGN UP for W.J. May's Newsletter to find out about new releases, updates, cover reveals and even freebies! http://eepurl.com/97aYf   Website: http://www.wjmaybooks.com Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/pages/Author-WJ-May-FAN-PAGE/141170442608149?ref=hl *Please feel free to connect with me and share your comments. I love connecting with my readers.* W.J. May grew up in the fruit belt of Ontario. Crazy-happy childhood, she always has had a vivid imagination and loads of energy. After her father passed away in 2008, from a six-year battle with cancer (which she still believes he won the fight against), she began to write again. A passion she'd loved for years, but realized life was too short to keep putting it off. She is a writer of Young Adult, Fantasy Fiction and where ever else her little muses take her.

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    Marked By Destiny - W.J. May

    Have You Read the C.o.K Series?

    The Prequel series is a Sub-Series of the Chronicles of Kerrigan.

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    THE CHRONICLES OF KERRIGAN: PREQUEL –

    Christmas Before the Magic

    Question the Darkness

    Into the Darkness

    Fight the Darkness

    Alone in the Darkness

    Lost the Darkness

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    THE CHRONICLES OF KERRIGAN

    Book I - Rae of Hope is FREE!

    Book Trailer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gILAwXxx8MU

    Book II - Dark Nebula

    Book Trailer:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ca24STi_bFM

    Book III - House of Cards

    Book IV - Royal Tea

    Book V - Under Fire

    Book VI - End in Sight

    Book VII – Hidden Darkness

    Book VIII – Twisted Together

    Book IX – Mark of Fate

    Book X – Strength & Power

    Book XI – Last One Standing

    Book XII – Rae of Light

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    THE CHRONICLES OF KERRIGAN SEQUEL

    Matter of Time

    Time Piece

    Second Chance

    Glitch in Time

    Our Time

    Precious Time

    The Chronicles of Kerrigan: Gabriel

    Living in the Past

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    Present for Today

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    Staring at the Future

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    Kerrigan Chronicles

    Book 1 – Stopping Time

    Book 2 – A Passage of Time

    Book 3 – Ticking Clock

    Book 4 – Just in Time

    Book 5 – Time in the City

    Book 6 – Ultimate Future

    The Kerrigan Kids Series

    Book 1 - School of Potential

    Book 2 - Myths & Magic

    Book 3 - Kith & Kin

    Book 4 - Playing With Power

    Book 5 - Line of Ancestry

    Book 6 - Descent of Hope

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    Hidden Secrets Saga:

    Download Seventh Mark part 1

    For FREE

    Seventh Mark part 2

    Marked By Destiny

    Book III

    Compelled

    Book IV

    Fate’s Intervention

    Book V

    Chosen Three

    Book VI

    USA TODAY BESTSELLING author, W.J. May brings you the highly-anticipated continuation of the Hidden Secrets Saga. The Twisted Red Riding Hood fairy-tale continues in the Prophecy Series. This is a stand-alone series, or maybe be read in continuation of the Seventh Mark books. 

    Be Prepared. There are werewolves in this story, and they are NOT friendly.

    Peace comes at a price...

    Rebekah and Jamie are happy, but discontent. Sometimes, it feels like everything important has already happened, that the peace their parents fought so hard to bring them is just a strange limbo they can't break out of. They want adventure, they want to make memories of their own. When a pair of new kids show up at their school, it looks like they might finally have their chance.

    It isn’t long before the twins open up to the mysterious new strangers. Sharing secrets they thought they’d never tell. Asking questions they never could have imagined.

    When a party in the woods leads to near tragedy, they find themselves caught in the middle of a fight they never saw coming. Trapped between two sides and put to the ultimate test.

    Will they choose their family? Or their future?

    Rogue’s adventure may have come to an end, but the twins is just getting started...

    PROPHECY SERIES

    In the Beginning

    White Winter

    Secrets of Destiny

    Contents

    Have You Read the C.o.K Series?

    Find W.J. May

    Hidden Secrets Saga:

    Contents

    PREFACE

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Chapter 6

    Chapter 7

    Chapter 8

    Chapter 9

    Chapter 10

    Chapter 11

    Chapter 12

    Chapter 13

    Chapter 14

    Chapter 15

    Chapter 16

    Chapter 17

    Find W.J. May

    The Chronicles of Kerrigan

    PREQUEL –

    SEQUEL –

    The Chronicles of Kerrigan: Gabriel

    More books by W.J. May

    PREFACE

    MY FIRST NOTE TO SELF:

    Well, it looks like I finally have bragging rights:

    I’ve completed something in my life which I’ve done all by myself.

    I finished high school!

    The graduation ceremony is tomorrow afternoon – they call it commencement here in Port Q. As of tomorrow afternoon I will officially be done with high school. Just need to walk down the school auditorium in some silly cap and gown, pick my diploma up and it’s done.

    Then the next chapter of my life starts. Scratch that, a new book is beginning. I can close the door of feeling like nothing and start planning my future – with Michael.

    The day after graduation Michael and I are heading across country, back to Niagara Falls. I just hope the trip won’t be a total loss and I find what I’m looking for. The real problem is I don’t really have any idea what I’m searching for – at least it won’t be too hard to avoid disappointment then.

    Correct that. There is one thing I know I plan to find out. Who is my mother? My father? Was what Damon told me true? Is there a way I am related to this Bentos—Ancient Journal guy? Okay, that’s more than one thing. How about I simplify it...

    I want to know why I ended up in the system.

    I figured the best way to keep track of the millions of questions I have is to start keeping a journal. Maybe I can find the answers to a few of them, and maybe some answers to the ones I’m too afraid to ask.

    And I guess it’s time to open the Wolf Book up again. It totally annoys Michael, and Caleb even more, when I refer to Grollics as wolves but they are. They’re shifters. Werewolves.

    I’ve spent the past three months avoiding the book, but the time has come to face my future and find out what I really am. OR should I write, what I am supposed to be?! I have a terrible feeling the Wolf Book is going to tell me more than I really want to know... that’s why I’ve avoided looking at it the past few months.

    Past is past. It won’t define me. I need to focus on what lies ahead, but if I want to be part of Michael’s future, I need to find out who (or what) I am.

    Gulp. Now comes the hard part.

    Rouge

    Chapter 1

    I NEEDED TO KNOW WHERE I'd been in order to find out where I was going.

    It was hard to believe I would be graduating from high school tomorrow. It felt as if I had been impatiently waiting for this moment the past four years and now I couldn’t believe it was finally here. It had been my one goal for so long that I almost felt disappointed I didn’t have a bigger sense of accomplishment. It has always seemed that graduation was going to be the key to my freedom.

    Except everything had changed.

    Not overnight. It had taken most of my senior year with a few very memorable nights and they weren’t all pleasant.

    I knew my goals and expectations had changed since meeting Michael. Michael was the most important thing in my life – more important than my so-called freedom. After spending my entire life moving from foster home to foster home, I had been on countdown to turning eighteen and graduating from high school. Graduation had represented freedom from the system. I had started school a year later than most - I wasn’t sure if that was because of one of my foster parents or if it was just from moving around in the system. All I remember since I was little was that my freedom would be obtained when I graduated and became of age.

    Then I met Michael and my entire vision changed perspective. I spent my entire life refusing to feel hope or happiness. He had changed that. It had been one wild year. Almost a year ago I was miserable because my foster parents were dragging me across the country, a new town and a new high school. I didn’t want to move from Niagara Falls to Port Coquitlam but like most of my life up to that point, it didn’t matter what I wanted.

    Fate seemed to have other plans.

    Moving turned out to be the best thing that could have ever happened to me.

    At least, that is what I knew now – someone else looking in on my life would probably disagree.

    It had been a rollercoaster ride since arriving in Port Coquitlam. I met Michael’s twin sister, who was also finishing her last year of high school tomorrow. Michael was already in university and this is where the rollercoaster ride starts hitting all those crazy twists and turns.

    After the strangest incident Bonfire Night during the beginning of the school year; I learned something that would shock my world. There was a war going on that we humans knew nothing about - a century’s old war between werewolves and... and... well this is where things grew even more complicated and I needed a journal to map things out. Hollywood would call it a war between werewolves and vampires, but Michael and Grace were not vampires. Sort of. They didn’t need blood or have fangs. They weren’t exactly dead. I think. They had died, but they had some kind of angel blood inside of them or something that prevented them from actually dying. I sighed and played with the necklace around my neck. They were, in a sense, a kind of modern day vampire.

    I fell back against my bed and folded my hands behind my head. Thinking about everything made my brain itch. My boyfriend and my best friend were dangerous. They had strength and speed beyond natural human ability. Anyone in their right mind would have run without looking back. I did the opposite, I moved in with them. I moved in with an entire family – a coven – of vampires. To make things even more complicated, one of the leaders was Michael and Grace’s adopted father, Caleb and Michael was his understudy.

    In fairy-tale terms, it was like dating the prince in line for the throne; except I was the peasant girl from the village – the very human girl. Michael loved me and had given me his Sioghra for my birthday in January. Everyone of their kind had a Sioghra pendant –created the day they died. The pendant was a small vial which held a bit of their blood – the last remains of their human blood. The Sioghra was to be given when they fell in love, presumably with someone similar to them because Sioghra was Gaelic for eternal love – once exchanged the pendants were meant to be worn forever.

    Michael had given me his. Deep down I had hoped one day I would be able to give him mine. Except that would never happen. Not now, not ever. Michael didn’t know yet, but I had the mark of the enemy, and one day he would hate me.

    Rouge, you ready to go shopping? Grace came barging through the door into the pool-house-now-my-house.

    I jumped off the bed grateful for the interruption. I didn’t want to worry about the future. I wanted to be happy in the present. I stuffed the journal into the drawer beside the futon bed. Almost, just need to find a pair of shoes to wear.

    Grace went straight into the small closet by the door. She grabbed a cute little pair of maryjanes that would go perfect with my capris and blouse. Grace would know exactly where to look; she had filled the closet up for me.

    Thanks. I sat down on the end of the bed to put them on.

    Where’s Michael? she asked and glanced around. He never seems to leave your side these days. I was shocked when he didn’t put up a fight about shopping.

    He needed to talk to Caleb.

    And he left you alone? The mocking shocked look on her face was too much.

    The pool house is maybe fifty feet from your place. I think I can manage on my own. I tossed a lone sock from the floor near the bed at her.

    She easily reflected it and laughed. I believe you. It’s the men inside that house, she nodded in the direction of the large vintage house

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