Ten
years ago, in the remote mountains of Colorado, a young girl watched
helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the
secret they carried in their blood. She survived by running into the
woods, and changing into something the hunters could never find--a wolf.
Now, though she lives half a world away, Vivian Gandillon is still
running. Living in relative safety in Bucharest, Vivian spends her days
working at a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city's underground
clubs, fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe and his gang
of delinquents he calls "The Five." Aiden Galvin is an artist
researching Bucharest's ancient art and relics for his next graphic
novel based on the mythology of the loup garoux--shapeshifters whose
power to change effortlessly into the forms of both human and wolf was
once considered holy among men. Wrestling demons of his own, Aiden hopes
to explore the inner lives of these outsiders that he believes were
persecuted to extinction--labeled monsters, murderers, werewolves. What
he doesn't know is that the loup garoux are not only very real, they're
far from extinct. During a chance encounter in an abandoned church
celebrating the loup garoux, Aiden unknowingly comes face-to-face with
the real thing, Vivian. Others may have secrets but none as
extraordinary as hers, for Vivian is among the last of her kind, leading
a tenuous existence under the protection and control of Gabriel, the
powerful and enigmatic leader of one of the last packs of loup garoux on
earth. After their brief exchange in the church, Aiden can't get Vivian
out of his mind, nor can she forget him. He pursues her until she
relents and begins to see him, but she can't bring herself to tell him
the truth--and lives in fear of showing him what she really is. And
what's worse: her future, and who she falls in love with, is already
predetermined. To keep their kind from being hunted to extinction,
Gabriel holds them to strict laws. One is that he must take a new bride
every seven years, and Vivian has been prophesied to be his next.
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