"I thought you could help me figure it out." I shook my head - in exasperation, not refusal. "And what do you need my help for?" "The spell's written in this really antique language," he said. "You have no sense of adventure." "You're really going to try this?" I said, gesturing at the battered old book that lay on the table between us. Take it from me, unavoidable monthly biological transformations are no picnic." "I knew you wouldn't understand," he said, sounding a little sulky. And unless it works way different than in the movies, it's not that you can turn into a wolf - you can't help it at the full moon. They probably get shot at a lot, those free-range wolves. "Here in Virginia, if you see a wolf, it's either in a cage or a rug in front of someone's fireplace. "Wolves don't run free anywhere closer than Canada," I said, as I tried to mop up behind him. Wolves are cool." He was waving his beer in his enthusiasm, and spilling rather a lot of it. Having a sense of smell a thousand times keener than we do. "Imagine being able to turn into a wolf, and run free through the forest. "Okay, maybe you wouldn't, but I'd love it," he said, through another mouthful of spaghetti. I tried to keep my tone neutral, but brothers and sisters learn to read each other. "I mean, don't you think it would be cool?" "Cool?" I repeated. "Why on earth would you want to be a werewolf?" I asked. Last year's crop of wolfsbane was particularly fine. Among her less savory hobbies is toxic horticulture, or gardening with poisonous plants. After graduation, she moved to the Washington, D.C., area and joined the communications staff of a large financial organization, where for two decades she honed her writing skills on nonfiction and developed a profound understanding of the criminal mind through her observation of interdepartmental politics. Although Andrews has loved fantasy and science fiction since childhood, during her years at the University of Virginia she grew fond of reading mysteries - particularly when she should have been studying for exams. These days she spends almost as much time in cyberspace as Turing Hopper, the Artificial Intelligence Personality who appears in her technocozy series from Berkley Prime Crime. Martin's Press, Donna Andrews was born and raised in Yorktown, Virginia. The Haire of the Beast Donna Andrews Like Meg Langslow, the ornamental blacksmith heroine of her humorous mystery series from St.
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