Gray mist and darkness settle over the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Underneath a midnight veil of fog and falling moonlight, the town of Doe Springs restlessly sleeps, fearful that the killer, which has already taken four lives, is hunting again. No one would ever suspect that the beautiful dog trainer Ivy Cole stalks on four legs with blazing orange eyes. . . . Ivy Cole has come home to the South, and her first order of business upon arriving in her new town is to eliminate the unsavory folks who reside there. Proud of what she can accomplish under the spell of the full moon, Ivy leaves the consequences of her actions lying about Doe Springs (in pieces) as a reminder that evil happens to those who deserve it. But something else has taken up residence in the land, something violent and cruel, with an unconscionable appetite that eventually targets the ones Ivy loves. While she hunts and is hunted by the other, Sheriff Hubbard doggedly works to solve the mystery behind the savage killings and mutilations. Ivy Cole and the Moon is an artful mix of horror, mystery, and Southern literary fiction. Farago weaves ancient werewolf and wolf mythology throughout her plot while blending in scientific and historical facts about true wolves. Forget the stereotypical Hollywood monster. Farago reinvents the werewolf in this first of the Lykanthrop series. Absent for more than a century, the voice of the wolf rises over the Appalachian peaks once more. Read Less