num_pages: 404
description: 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 historic 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 nightshattered by horrific unimaginable violence. . .The young man inexplicably attackedbittenby 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 whowhathe 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 threaten 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 are others like him who may be watchingguardian creatures who have existed throughout time and may 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.
language: English
title: The Wolf Gift
publisher: Knopf