Like a Wolf

When crime reporter Betsy Granville is assigned to cover a child abuse case in Wisconsin she is horrified by the details. A couple had kept their son chained in the basement, claiming he was a werewolf. But after interviewing the parents, Betsy is less sure of their guilt. And as she spends more time in the town, their story starts to sound more plausible. Something, after all, is howling in the woods at night. Is this just Betsys imagination running away with her, or is something more going on?

Dianna and Reggie Sullivan had been living a nightmare for three years. Every full moon, their 14-year-old son Wilder turned into a werewolf. They were managing, until the night he broke free of his restraints and attacked his mother. His father shot him with the silver bullet they had been saving for just that occasion. It did not kill him, but he had no memory of being a werewolf. The county police who came to investigate saw it as a horrible case of child abuse, and the parents were arrested.

Something more seems to be going on in the small town of Merrywood, Wisconsin. But what?