She is concerned instead with the daily lives of these werewolves, in both human and wolf form, their conflicts with one another and their plans for the future. Their love interests are front and center, including conflict over arranged werewolf marriages. I happen to enjoy both approaches and think both authors do great jobs with the routes they've chosen. However, these are very different approaches to what may appear to be the same material. I have received more reader email about the cover for Touch Of The Wolf than I have any other book cover in 1999.
Readers absolutely love it.
I've seen this kind of image on the stepback of other novels but I believe it is a good idea to instead bring this image to the front cover. That way it hits readers right between the eyes in the stores yet doesn't embarrass them to pick it up. This shows his werewolf nature. We also see the Northumberland setting, below, but it does not dominate the cover. The Braden-wolf image dominates the cover.