Excerpt from chapter 1:

The wind tossed a few stray snowflakes across my shoulders. I may be snug and warm under a fur coat, but the chill air still made me shiver. Perched on the exposed rocky crest of this steep ridge I could see the human settlement that lay before me. They called it Horseshoe Bay, someone had seen the name on a sign when they'd first moved out here – I always thought it was a little pretentious for the meager collection of buildings they'd managed to save from crumbling to the ground.

I backed away from the ridge as another cool gust ruffled my fur. Returning to the comfortingly close concealment of the trees, a light skiff of snow slipped under my paw. Good thing my friend English wasn't here, he'd just as likely go flying down headfirst on the slightest hint of ice.

In the event that I haven't mentioned, my name is Tommy, and I'm a wolf. Or wolf-like at least. A hundred-odd years ago we went through the Cataclysm, it shook the world up a bit. Humans are in the minority now, most of us are more like something you might find in an old book of mythology.

I should be nicely snug and warm back at my apartment in V-town, but I made the mistake of falling for a girl who wasn't quite as she appeared – she's a human. Just my luck that English, a buddy of mine, is a bounty hunter, and the government had decided that they didn't much care for the hairless monkeys anymore. A few days, and more than a few broken bones later, here I am – stuck squarely between V-town and the new human settlement. Neither place really much interested in having me or Rebeca – the one who got me into this in the first place.

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