Mark Wiseman is a werewolf. It's a bad enough problem in itself, but he was just caught on the workplace security camera fighting his transformation by the company CEO Bernard Roberts. Bernard blackmails Mark into doing his bidding: kill certain executive officers of the company merging with theirs, or Bernard will implicate Mark in the murder of Mark's parents.

It's a losing battle: Mark cannot stomach the killing of humans and every murder pushes him closer to losing the control of the lycanthropy he's fought so hard to master. If Mark flees, Bernard will turn him in; if he keeps killing, he'll lose his humanity and most likely get caught anyway. What path do you choose when all roads lead to hell?

Okay, so on page 5 there's a crescent moon and on page 6 the moon is full. What else really needs to be said? If this is a werewolf novel, things like that shouldn't make it into the published version of the book. But they did, thus the poor rating. Truth be told, if J.F. Gonzalez can keep the brutal treatment of his characters in the last two chapters of Shapeshifter a constant throughout his next book, we'll have something to talk about. But this was way too little, way to late; better luck next time.

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Mass Market Paperback: 323 pages
Publisher: Leisure (January 2008)
ISBN-10: 0843959738
ISBN-13: 978-0843959734