Jane Walker crossed the Atlantic to marry by correspondence, but it turned out that her fiancé had been dead for a long time. Now she’s stuck in a foggy little town where the locals carry out grim rituals, and a wolf’s howl rides over the hills.
Here, legends about werewolves become real—and only Inspector Rainford keeps his composure. When a tragedy that happened twenty years ago repeats itself in Woodenkerse, Jane feels that somehow she is connected to it. Who lured her here, and why? Is there a predator hidden among the townspeople? And can she believe anyone at all? Inspector Rainford is determined to find all the answers, though he considers the biggest mystery to be Jane herself.