Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Touch of the Wolf
Amazon US PB Amazon Canada PB
Susan Krinard
Class/Genre: Fantasy Historical Werewolves Romantic Suspense
Bantam, Sep 1999, $5.99, 444 pp
Four decades have passed since Tiberius Forster, Earl of Greyburn, began the Cause because he worried that his breed, the loups-garous, were becoming extinct. The larger human population was assimilating the Werewolves through marriage. Each subsequent generation contained more impurities in their blood. By 1860, Tiberius’ Cause is working as the Werewolves are closer to saving their breed. That year, his grandson fourteen-year old Braden attends his first meeting.
At the same time in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, seven-year old Cassidy Holt worries about her future with the recent death of her beloved mother, leaving her an orphan. In a letter addressed to a friend, but not mailed, Cassidy learns that the English Forster family is kin. However, her father’s brother Uncle Jonas arrives and takes the little girl to live with him on his New Mexico farm.
Fifteen years later, Cassidy travels to England to seek her family. Upon arrival, Cassidy senses a peer in Braden, now the head of the Cause. Braden’s obsessively believes that the means do not matter as long as the end results in the loups-garous being saved. Braden also tries to destroy his growing attraction to the naive American Werewolf who is haunting his heart.
TOUCH OF THE WOLF is a superb supernatural romance due to Susan Krinard’s ability to make readers believe that the Werewolf breed exists. Cassidy and Braden are an interesting pair as they struggle with their growing love and his fixation on saving his people that borders on insanity. Ms. Krinard deserves plenty of accolades from romance readers and all werewolf fans because she makes the loups-garous seem alive and well in nineteenth century England.
Harriet Klausner
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