Mary Patterson Thornburg

The Boy-Wolf Mary Patterson Thornburg

Vivia was born with a special gift - the psychic ability to read and influence thoughts and feelings, to create illusions, to manipulate the world around her in limited but important ways. Her world calls this gift guile, and speaks of it as witchcraft. When she learns to use and control her gift, she'll be a great healer, much respected - and much feared. Now, though, she's not quite fifteen, and she's fallen in love with a boy who has a terrible problem. When the moon is full, he becomes a wolf. It's an illness, he thinks. A curse. And only Vivia's love can cure him. Vivia knows he's right. But there's another problem. If she makes love with Lashti, she'll lose more than her virginity - she'll lose her guile, too. So she has a hard choice to make. Will it be the right one? There's no way to tell until it's made...