Her breath would not come; her ribs ached, her right wrist was a stab of pain; she dragged herself to her feet. The myriad hurts crumbled away as adrenalin and endorphins slammed into her blood. For a moment she swore she could hear someone screaming.
At first, when Maeve Berkeley becomes a werewolf the beast seems contained, changing her shape only once a month and content to sleep while she struggles with the problems of an ordinary teenager. But life never fits into neat boxes, and when her estranged uncle shows up with secrets of his own, the equilibrium of her two selves is thrown into chaos. Desperate to find balance in an alien world, she faces an even deadlier threat looming on the horizon: a werewolf hunter spurred by revenge and sworn to kill her. In a world where intrigue is met with the flash of fangs and silver bullets, the determination of one young woman to hold onto her humanity questions: can anybody really escape the footfalls of their own shadow?