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Summary
The Nogitsune is gone.
What it left behind is not.
Stiles has inherited nine lives' worth of knowledge, a body that no longer obeys all the rules he remembers, and abilities he is only beginning to understand. Then teenagers across Beacon Hills start waking up changed—supernatural creatures assembled piece by piece by people who have learned how to steal power without understanding what makes it alive.
Theo Raeken returns with carefully arranged truths. Kira's foxfire is harvested. Lydia hears death getting closer. And the fracture between Scott and Stiles becomes exactly the weakness someone needs.
Then Stiles loses the one person he always believed would still be there when everything else went wrong.
What follows takes him beyond the Nogitsune, beyond Beacon Hills, and eventually beyond the question of what kind of supernatural creature he is.
Because the answer was never werewolf, kitsune, druid, witch, or sorcerer.
Some things are not defined by the power they carry.
They are defined by what they choose to protect.
Series
- Part 2 of Roots