The girl is desperately worried that her new love will uncover her secret, yet she continues using her charms to seduce and murder threatening members of the werewolf community. Lark’s former girl hides out in human form with Anthony, a fully human dogcatcher. There are a few changes in leadership, but eventually Baron pairs with Sasha, a darkly seductive female werewolf, to form a dangerous rival gang. Lark is the dominant dog in the beginning, until his girl (who remains unnamed) strays, and he is betrayed by Baron, a member of his pack. Unofficially, there is room for only one woman in each pack, and she tends to link herself to the leader. The werewolves of Barlow’s imagined world don’t adhere to traditional rules-descendents of the ancient lycanthropes, they feed on flesh and are able to change from man to dog whenever they please, regardless of the lunar cycle. Rival gangs of werewolves duke it out for control of Los Angeles in this dark but oddly tender free-verse novel.
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