A female wolf bitten by an infected human must live life as an ‘upright’ to save her pack from extinction.
In this first book of a trilogy Elle was once a wolf; then, bitten by an infected human and transformed, she is thrust into the harsh and unknown world of uprights. She must servive with the despised form of human. Here she meets Mike, the cowboy with a heart as big as the Arizona ranch-land he rides upon. To him this mysterious raw beauty is surely salvation; all his dreams come true...
But, some dreams were always meant to be nightmares, and this one has just begun.
How will Elle explain claw-marks left on wooden floors by her son Cassity; and what to do about Coyote, the pack outcast not worthy the name of Wolf. He who is always two steps behind and getting closer?
As the local community must find a way to deal with the increasing threat of unnaturally brutal wolf attacks, Elle is torn between her strange new feelings for Mike and her primeval sense of duty to her kind. Will she make the ultimate sacrifice to safeguard her son’s future...?