Books with title Beasts and Saints

All Lea wants is to run away.~ I wanted a way to remember how I felt while changed, a way to record this event so that I could remember it and be prepared next time. I held up a bloodied index finger and began to write words on the wall: hunger, pain, anger, red, fog.~After her first changing, everything in Lea's life falls apart. She decides she doesn't want to change, doesn't want to hunt, and she certainly never signed up to kill. Her friends tell her that fulfilling her duty as a hunter and mother is worth the life of a savage. Her teacher assures her that men chose their sacrifice to women. Her mother tells her there's another way.When Lea is captured, everything changes.Lea finds an ally in an unexpected place: Tanner. Her bodyguard tries his best to protect her as their relationship grows, but he's unable to protect her from the truth and humiliation she will have to face. Nor will he be able to stop her from realizing her mother isn't coming to save her.~“Lea.” Tanner's voice was barely audible. He touched my shoulder. It was enough to push me over the edge. Tears blurred my vision; I leaned back against the bed and sobbed. Tanner patted me on the head and made shushing sounds in my ear. It only made me cry harder. I wanted real comfort. I wanted my mother to take me into her arms and tell me that it was alright to cry. I craved a hug and a kiss on the forehead and her familiar voice assuring me that I was okay. Some boy patting me on the head like I was his stupid dog was not what I needed. I wailed as a fresh wave of tears came.~Now Lea must choose.~A boy of about fifteen called out, “You’re a hunter and a killer too. You should be locked up just like they are. Why should we take orders from a beast? You may not have hunted, but you are still one of them!” ~As tensions rise, Lea learns the difference between blood and family. She doesn’t belong in the village of men, but she can’t go back home. And as war rages around her, she must decide between the society she despises and the one that despises her.