The time is the present.
The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above
the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set
against a towering redwood forest.
A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An
older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has
been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A
chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night --
shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably
attacked -- bitten -- by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . .
. A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive
transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror,
between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will
become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.
As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen
savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good,
he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately
hunted as "the Man Wolf" by authorities, the media, and scientists
(evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new
and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper
into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been
given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull
towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others
like him who are watching -- guardian creatures who have existed
throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge.
And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a
new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still
to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.
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