Craig Conrad Bücher

Leighann Baker, Paige Harper's roommate, asks Paul Rice to find her cousin. David Baker, who has suddenly disappeared, leaving his two children behind. Paul naturally helps her, but even before he sets out for Falls Corners, Wisconsin, where the disappearance took place, he discovers that the missing man's wife has also disappeared and the police think Baker had something to do with her disappearance and is hiding from them. Once reaching Falls Corners, Paul finds that the community is enchanted in more ways then one and the area is a hot bed for biped wolf encounters whose ability to change form and look human has enabled them to infiltrate government agencies, including the CIA.

Dutch Verlander's life was winding down and drastically changing. Retirement was only a step away, and old age had snuck up on him and was smiling at him with the grin of a child molester. Like a man falling from a great height and the sudden change of direction at the end, he saw his life taking on a new direction, one he did not like or want: his father was dying; his girl was dumping him; and his friends were being murdered one by one; and he suddenly found himself saying his last goodbyes.

Paul Rice is asked by his friend, Police Chief Clive Thayer, to look into the disappearance of his sister's grandson. Paul is reluctant to say "yes" because he is not a trained investigator, but Thayer's strong feelings that there is more involved than the boy's disappearance persuade him to make the trip up to northern Wisconsin. There, he fi nds a large town growing into a small city and a female police chief who resents his involvement. His search leads him to a cult of baby murderers and straight to an encounter with an ancient power that is not benign.