Only The Moon Howls

ISBN: 978-1-938463-49-5

ASIN: B00CL2GN0G

Seventeen-year-old Caleb O’Connor is a werewolf, but he doesn’t really believe in magic. He tries to break out of his reclusive magical community in Maine to go to MIT, hoping he can make it in in a technological world where no one believes in monsters. He’s drawn back to Maine when, one fateful weekend, his three best friends sneak into a mysterious, abandoned mansion. One of them, René, dies there. A second, Toby, is put on trial for his life by the magical community. His crime? Caleb never finds out for sure… except that somehow his friends have let loose something much worse than any of them could have imagined.

When Toby is executed, Caleb vows revenge: on the magical Community, but also on whatever escaped from the abandoned mansion. The problem is, he’s not even sure exactly what that is. He has rejected magic his whole life–but now, in order to avenge his friends, he will have to become a better student of magic than he ever was of science.

His opportunity comes in the form of one of his own professors, who admits that for many years he has worked for an “agency” that spies on vampires and werewolves. He invites Caleb to his old family castle in Romania for the summer, where he’ll teach him magic in exchange for help driving the Undead from the rugged mountains.

Caleb’s summer vacation ends up lasting six years. Along with learning how to harvest the magical powers of the elements, stars, and planets, he also leads a pack of Romanian werewolves and raises a “cub” as his own son. He learns hard lessons about loyalty and betrayal, and about the tangled balance between man, beast and monster.

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Chapter 1