The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong is the first book in her Darkness Rising series.
Maya lives on Vancouver Island with her parents. Her father is a park ranger and her mother works for the medical research company that owns the town. Maya was adopted so she does not know of her heritage but she is obviously Native American.
For her sixteenth birthday she is trying to convince her parents to let her get a tattoo. She has a paw shaped birthmark that is fading and she would like to make it darker. She also has a strong relationship to the animals she helps heal and a former patient who is now practically a pet - a cougar named Fitz.
Lately things have been getting strange. Cougars are approaching her out of the forest; an old woman sees her birthmark and calls Maya a witch; and the hot new student seems to be interested in her.
Armstrong has begun an exciting new fantasy series. Maya is a great character and the changes in her life will make for an interesting plot. Readers who love fantasy but cannot read another vampire story will do well to switch to Armstrong's Darkness Rising series.
Armstrong, Kelley. (2011). The Gathering. New York: Harper Teen.
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