The Dark Within Us (The Calladon Chronicles, #1)

Seventeen-year-old Kal's life is upended when the monsters featured in her mother's crazed ramblings become real. Very real. And the list of everything-she-thought-she-knew-but-really-didn't only grows when her best friend, Jan, reveals that he isn't who he claimed to be. He's not even human. He belongs to an ancient race that has protected earth for countless years.

But now, they need her help instead. His world is crumbling under the grip of evil embodied and the beasts that Coerce weaves ...