Brennen's life seems charmed – attractive, athletic, rich, intriguing – the whole package, but Brennen has a secret. Brennen Tyler is a monster.
After the untimely accidental death of his parents, the infant Brennen Tyler goes to live with his kind if distant grandfather, Dr. Earnest James, at his estate in fictional Ash County, CT. Dr. James, a brilliant scientist and wealthy entrepreneur, and his grandson live a rather mundane life for thirteen years, but when adolescence strikes Brennen, something really changes.
Puberty is hard for everyone – hair growing in new and strange places, growth spurts that render favorite clothes useful only as rags overnight, deepening voice, changing urges, terrifying skin, and, of course, the hormones. For Brennen, though, his journey to manhood seems to have brought on a strange new affliction. With a mathematical, almost surgically clean precision, every twenty-nine days, Brennen Tyler becomes a monster.
Worse still, the monster that comes so very regularly seems to be coming more often, and Brennen finds himself wondering if one day soon, he will disappear forever leaving only the beast behind.
Intended for older Young Adult (or young at heart adults) -- speculative/science-fiction teen drama. Book 1 of The Brennenite Chronicles.