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Description edit
Miniwa, Wisconsin is under siege, but not by the usual summer tourists. The area's normally shy wolf population has begun stalking human prey, and their victims have been disappearing...or worse. Something is happening in the woods. Something brutal and primitive... Officer Jessie McQuade has... read more
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Characters edit
- Jessie McQuade: Deputy Sheriff in the small town of Miniwa. WI, a tall woman, full of insecurities
- Will Cadotte: an Ojibwe, a professor of Native American totems, member of the wolf clan, handsome, tall
- Edward Mandenauer: a Jager-Sucher, werewolf hunter
- Clyde Johnston: Sheriff and Jessie's boss
- Brad: Deputy sheriff, summer help only
- Tina Wilson: Beautician, owner of the Clip and Curl
- Karen Larson: School teacher, bitten by wolf
- Mel: victim of werewolf attack
- Dr. Bozeman: Miniwa's doctor and coroner
- Dr Elise Hanover: A member of the Jager-Suchers and Dr. Trying to find werewolf cure
- Zee: Old woman with impressive cussing vocabulary, dispatcher for the police department
- Josef Mengele: WWII Nazi torturer, doctor, believed to also have been experimenting in creating a werewolf army for Hitler
Quotes edit
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“I hated being afraid. Fear smelled of weakness, and the weak did not survive.”
Jessie McQuade
First Sentence edit
The summer I discovered the world was not black-and-white-the way I liked it-but a host of annoying shades of gray was the summer a lot more changed than my vision.
Table of Contents edit
No table of contents, 41 chapters
Glossary edit
- jager sucher: German for hunter searcher, a wolf hunter specialist sent by the DNR
- dodaim: Ojibwe term for totem, a carved stone or wood replica of the clan's animal spirit
- matchi-auwishuk: The Evil Ones, One of the two spirit manitous that do not help mankind
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 14 in Nightcreature. (standard series)
Followed by Hunter's Moon.
This is book 1 of 14 in Nightcreature: reading order. (community list)
Followed by Stroke of Midnight.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lori Handeland (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 5, 2004
ISBN: 978-0312991340
Page Count: 352
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Country: USA
Publication Date: August 5, 2004
ISBN: 978-0312991340
Page Count: 352
Awards edit
- RITA Award (2005: Best Paranormal Romance)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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