"Fantastic, fast-paced werewolf romance."

For small-town cop Jessie McQuade, life is all about what she can see, feel and hear. She's no dummy; she doesn't believe in all the woo-woo superstitions of the local inhabitants and she certainly doesn't subscribe to any Native American legends. That is until a local school teacher hits a wolf on the highway, then stops to check on the animal and is bitten. Jessie tracks the bleeding wolf and the trail leads her to a beautifully sculpted naked man standing in the forest.

Jessie's problems begin when the teacher develops a rapid case of unusual rabies and dies, after which her body turns up missing. Now Jessie's efforts to follow the facts lead her down the road to the supernatural. In desperation, she turns to Native American Will Cadotte, a professor and expert in wolf clan legend and her man from the forest.

Will knows there's more going on than the spread of rabies, especially when Jessie tells him she found a wolf totem on the highway at the scene of the accident. Enter wolf hunter Edward Mandenauer, whose life's career has been hunting wolves of a supernatural nature. Mandenauer is convinced the small Wisconsin town is being overrun by werewolves. Jessie thinks he's full of hot air. But as time goes by and more unusual events unfold, Jessie becomes a believer. Then she must worry whether her lover, the beautiful Will, is also a werewolf.

Ms. Handeland has crafted a wonderful story that will have you wondering until the very end just who is and who isn't a werewolf. A great fast-paced read that I highly recommend.

Reviewed by Shayne Sawyer
Posted September 20, 2004

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Summary

By the light of a blue moon, danger prowls—

Miniwa, Wisconsin is under siege, but not by the usual summer tourists. The area's normally shy wolf population has begun stalking human prey, and their victims have been disappearing... or worse. Something is happening in the woods. Something brutal and primitive...

and desire is unleashed...

Officer Jessie McQuade has seen plenty in her years on the force—but nothing as intriguing as the gorgeous, naked man she encounters while tracking a rogue wolf. Professor Will Cadotte is a Native American activist. He's also the only man capable of distracting Jessie from her work. And for a cop, distraction—no matter how pleasurable—can be deadly. It's against Jessie's better judgment to accept Will's help in her investigation, yet she soon finds herself doing exactly that—and more. Will's dark, penetrating eyes see into a part of Jessie's soul she never knew existed. It's exhilarating...and terrifying.

Now, as a town's deepest secrets come to light, no one is safe: not friends, lovers, or strangers. And as Jessie follows a bloody trail to the shocking truth, she'll have to decide who she can trust when the moon is full...