The Silver Wolf (Legends of the Wolves, Book 1)
by Alice Borchardt

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Alice Borchardt brings 8th-century Rome vividly to life. Her language is earthy and sensuously descriptive: "The wolf visited Regeane's eyes and ears. The girl staggered slightly with the shock. The light in the square became intense. Smells an overwhelming experience: wet stone, damp air, musty clothing, perspirations shading from ancient sticky filth to fresh acrid adrenal alarm."

Borchardt is Anne Rice's sister, but she writes a very different sort of tale. Ghosts, the dead, and supernatural forces are here, but so is laugh-out-loud humor and a happy ending. --Nona Vero

Into decadent Rome of the Dark Ages comes Regeane, an enigmatic young woman distantly related to Charlemagne. But the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. Regeane is a shapeshifter -- woman and wolf, hunter and hunted -- possessed of preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years, and senses so keen they can pierce the veil of death itself.

Betrothed to a barbarian lord she has never seen, Regeane is surrounded by enemies. But outside the gates of Rome, baying at the moon, there is a mysterious dark wolf whose scent awakens the animal in Regeane. Now, as deadly plots tighten like a noose around her neck, Regeane must fight to live with dignity as the proud creature she is: civilized and savage, partaking of both, yet infinitely more than either....

"A daring and vibrant new voice on the female literary frontier... The Silver Wolf is a stunning initiation into a dark and dazzling realm."
   ANNE RICE

"A fascinating tale -- brutal, ribald, engrossing, poignantly beautiful."
   JOHANNA LINDSAY, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

"Mesmerizing... Astounding... A lush, richly crafted tale... With intricate detailing and hypnotic prose, Alice Borchardt unleashes a new world to readers."
   ROMANTIC TIMES

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