Meet sixteen-year-old Maya and her best friend, Daniel—two ordinary teens with extraordinary abilities—in this exclusive SNEAK PEEK at
The Gathering,
the first book in a thrilling new paranormal trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong!

THE CAT HAD DANIEL pinned face-first to the ground. Daniel lay still, playing dead, as I shouted at the mountain lion and my parents shouted at me. The cat snarled again and I braced myself, ready to run if those powerful hind legs bunched for flight. But it made no move to come after me, just snarled and spat and stayed over Daniel.

Rage boiled up in me. Maybe it was shock, but it felt like rage, pure fury coursing through me. I screamed at the cat, and I looked it square in the eye and when I did it was like everything else disappeared. I met its gaze and the world seemed to dip and darken and I smelled wet earth and thick musk and fresh blood. The wind whipped past, like I was running. Running so fast the ground whizzed beneath me, the wind cutting across my skin. Exhilaration filled me.