Book Two: 7th Winter

The Werewolf

Iona Brígh Faylan is fourteen, Irish, and plays bodhrán at the Thursday-night session on a Mississippi steamboat. She has a bad temper, a worse taste in venues, and a birthmark her mother always said meant she was "touched by the old country."

She finds out what that means the night she runs toward a scream instead of away from it, and discovers her real talent isn't music. It's spontaneous fur production.

Now Brígh is a werewolf who has no idea how to be one, hunting a town suddenly crawling with street preachers and their strange pamphlets: four figures around a darkness: the Dragon, the Raven, the Leviathan, and the Wolf. The Four Avatars, they call them. Servants of the Mother. And the wolf, it turns out, was always going to be her. To understand what she's becoming, Brígh will have to face the one person she's spent her whole life surviving: her father, and the secret he buried to keep her safe.