Savannah, it turns out, is catatonic, and before the suicide attempt had completely assumed the identity of a dead friend-the implication being that she couldn't stand being a Wingo anymore. When he hears that his fierce, beautiful twin sister Savannah, a well-known New York poet, has once again attempted suicide, he escapes his present emasculation by flying north to meet Savannah's comely psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein. Tom Wingo is an unemployed South Carolinian football coach whose internist wife is having an affair with a pompous cardiac man. But now they have really raised Elena’s ire.Īrmstrong’s lycanthropology, though vivid, lacks the depth of Whitley Streiber’s epic The Last Vampire, but it’s as smooth as cream all the way, sure to gain fans.Ī flabby, fervid melodrama of a high-strung Southern family from Conroy ( The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline), whose penchant for overwriting once again obscures a genuine talent. They hope to trade Clayton to Jeremy for Elena. This pack wants Elena to help breed the pure werewolves (as opposed to half-wolf, half-human) that only a female werewolf can produce.

A rival pack kidnaps Clayton, overcoming him with a hypodermic needle. In one memorable moment during the rogue hunt, Elena and Clayton cavort and race about after sex.

She and Clayton kill the recently bitten adolescent rogue, but three more are hanging about, one of them a serial killer, and they have killed one of the Pack. Pack alpha leader Jeremy calls her back to his estate outside Syracuse to hunt down a rogue werewolf. Boyfriend Philip has no idea that the reason Elena often goes out late at night is that she feels the Change coming over her. A year ago, against all werewolf instincts, she choose to leave the Pack and live with humans. Elena was 19 when she was purposely bitten by psychopathic Clayton, later her sometime lover. Those who become werewolves by being bitten almost always die of physical and mental stress brought on by the Change, and the werewolf gene is passed only through males. In Toronto, Elena Michaels, the only living female werewolf, tells us that about 35 of her kind live on this planet, nearly all born as werewolves.

Debut werenovel about cultural lycanthropy.

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