by Nylah165
At his school, Keith is a nobody—unnoticed, underestimated, and easily forgotten. He isn’t popular, he isn’t special, and outside of his best friend Robbie, no one would notice if he disappeared. With prom only a week away and brutal basketball tryouts looming, Keith is already on the edge of giving up. Then Nyra arrives. The new girl is quiet, unnervingly intelligent, and strangely distant from everyone around her. While Keith struggles to matter at school, Nyra seems untouched by its rules—especially the full moon that hangs over the night of a birthday party held in the basketball court. That night, Keith wanders into the forest and is attacked by something inhuman. When he wakes up the next morning in his own bed—his wounds healed and his memories shattered—Keith realizes the truth is far worse than a nightmare. He didn’t survive the monster. He became it. Under the full moon, Keith transforms into a creature of claws and blood, killing without knowing it and waking with guilt he can’t escape. As Keith fights to understand what he is, Nyra reveals that his transformation is no coincidence. She knows what he’s becoming—and she knows the danger he poses. Once invisible to everyone, Keith is now bound to a fate he never asked for, where being a nobody was safer than becoming something feared. Fated Claws is a dark supernatural coming-of-age story about invisibility, identity, and what happens when the boy no one noticed becomes the monster no one can ignore.
