First published 2016
A nameless boy has spent ten years on the road with Aunt Libby and Uncle Darren, moving through the American South in a constant cycle of midnight departures and narrow escapes. His family are werewolves, mixedblood shapeshifters who live as outcasts in a world that fears what it cannot understand. They survive on the margins, poor but determined, always staying ahead of the law and the people who would destroy them. The boy knows his time of reckoning approaches. Soon Libby and Darren will discover whether their nephew carries the family gift or remains fully human. As the close calls multiply and their pursuers draw nearer, the boy faces an impossible choice between two worlds. He can stay with the only family he has ever known, accepting a life of perpetual flight and transformation. Or he can cross over to the settled world of ordinary people, abandoning everything he understands about belonging and love. The decision will determine not just his future, but his very identity.
Genres: literary-fiction, fantasy, horror, paranormal
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, suspenseful
Tropes: found-family, outsiders, transformation
Setting: American South
Period: 21st-century
320 pages · Paperback · William Morrow/HarperCollins, [
Content warnings: violence