Twilight, but With a Plot

 Crave by Tracy Wolff 

This was so "Twilight" but with a plot other than the love triangle. Grace moves to Alaska to live with her Uncle after her parents die in a car accident. He runs a boarding school for supernatural creatures, but she doesn't know about the supernatural. She moves into a room with her cousin Macy, who is really great. She meets Jaxon and Flint. And I was correct in my guesses about what kind of creatures they were. (yay, me!) Macy is crushing on Flint even though she has a boyfriend, Cam (who we see very little of). And Flint is a golden retriever of a guy so Grace likes him immediately. But, only as friends because she only has eyes for Jaxon. Jaxon of course is tortured and has a sexy scar. Grace keeps ending up in near death situations, and Jaxon keeps saving her. Turns out she is his mate, but he won't tell her that because it won't be safe for her. Flint, as it turns out is behind the near death experiences, or at least the rest of his dragon shifter friends are. Then there's Lia. I knew something was off about her from the jump, but her trying to kill Grace to bring back her dead mate was not on my bingo card. Jaxon saves Grace. Grace kills Lia. Then, things are great for about three days and Hudson (Jaxon's brother and Lia's dead mate) somehow manages to solidify and tries to stab Jaxon so Grace uses her body as a shield to protect him. We get bonus chapters from Jaxon's perspective and that's when we find out that Grace isn't actually dead, just a gargoyle. And she isn't returning to her human form. We are led to believe that it's because wherever she it, Hudson also is, and she won't come back to human if it will also bring Hudson back because he has the power of persuasion and can make you do anything he wants, regardless of how you feel about it. So, obviously she's not going to bring back the person how wants to kill everyone that's not a vampire. This ends on a cliffhanger and it's interesting enough that it makes me want to read the next book.