Jeremy Danvers - Alpha werewolf and leader of the Pack. Also an anthropologist (which is how he and Elena initially met). Blessed with drop dead gorgeous looks and genius intelligence but with all the charm of a "pit Viper". He was bitten as a child, the story of which is told in Kelley's first online novella, Savage. He is Jeremy's foster-son-turned bodyguard, and the werewolf who bit Elena. Clayton Danvers - Clay was bitten as a child, and was seen as more wolf than human. Journalist and the only known female werewolf. Determined to leave that life behind, she focused on her school work and succeeded in going to college where she would meet Clayton. Elena Michaels - Elena was orphaned when she was young, which sent her into many abusive foster families where she was chosen for her innocent looks by the men. Once this is over, she'll be squared with the Pack and free to live life as a human. When the Pack Alpha, Jeremy, calls asking for her help fighting a sudden uprising, she only agrees because she owes him. So she left the North American Werewolf Pack and returned to Toronto where she's trying to live as a human. Worst of all, she realizes she's growing content with that life, with being that person. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her- her temper, her violence-but requires it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. The sensuality of Elena's transformations and the viciousness of her kills mesh perfectly with her tough personality.Elena Michaels is the world's only female werewolf. Elena's feral sensibility, like her psychological vulnerabilities, seems a natural outgrowth of her abusive childhood, and her relationship with the pack is that of any prodigal child to a close-knit family. Her true achievement, though, is her depiction of werewolf nature in believably human context. Armstrong prepares readers for her tale's twists with several key revisions of werewolf lore the werewolf taint is mostly hereditary, and werewolves can be killed as easily as any human or wolf. 
Reunited with her former lycanthrope lover and forced into brutally predatory confrontations, Elena finds the call of the wild subtly reasserting itself.
All this is jeopardized when she agrees to help her old packmates hunt some troublesome mutts who are converting common criminals to werewolves and leaving a trail of conspicuous carnage.
In the year since she relocated to Toronto, she's embarked on a career as a journalist and begun a pleasingly mundane relationship with a decent man. Elena Michaels is a self-described "mutt," a werewolf who left her secretive pack in upstate New York for a life among humans. It's not easy to find a fresh angle for the werewolf theme, but this debut novel from a Canadian writer proves that solid storytelling and confident craftsmanship can rejuvenate one of the hoariest of all horror clich,s.
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