The Waking (The Upturned Hourglass) (Volume 1)

Despite the fact that she is an orphan, Valie is your ordinary teenage girl or at least she believes as much until she meets Jack, a werewolf tasked with stalking her to see if she should be turned into one of them. The person calling the shots, however, turns out to be none other than the father she has never met. Suddenly, with Jack at the helm, Valie is thrown into a world of secrecy and magick in which conspiracy and murder surround her at all sides. Her life as an ordinary teenager ends, only to be replaced with questions and fear, fear of her father apparently seeking her death, fear of the Lycanthrope Council that would also have her head and fear of not being able to answer the question: what is she?