Wolf Moon

The last surviving member of a powerful but cursed family, Nicole St. Claire returns from her exile in New York City to protect her old love, Duffy Johnson, but the town's most powerful man is luring them into an unholy trap, and Nicole's terrifying weakness may be their only salvation. Original.

In the quaint, New England splendor of St. Claire, New York, life should be peaceful. But unknown to the townspeople, a centuries-old feud is finally coming to head. Timothy Baltazar is the effective ruler of this quiet township, owning most of the businesses and land, but this is a power he stole from the town's original founders, the noble St. Claires--and by less-than savory methods.

Now, suffering the consequences of an impulsive mistake, Timothy Baltazar is about to find all his worst fears come true at the hands of the youngest of the St. Claires--Nicole--who years back was banished for possessing (or so the townsfolk believed) the flowering of the St. Claire curse: lycanthropy. Nicole's troubled childhood was made better only by the love and support of her oldest friend and staunchest companion, Duffy Johnson. And when Duffy falls afoul of Timothy, Nicole must face the darkest truths about her own past and her own deadly nature to rescue the man she has always loved from Timothy's dread clutches.Wolf Moon by John R. Holt. Copyright © 1997 by John R. Holt. Excerpted by permission of Bantam Books, a division of the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved.