Skin of the Wolf

About this book

Sam Cabot is the pseudonym of Carlos Dews and S.J. Rozan. In Sam Cabots exhilarating new novel a vicious murder in Sothebys begins a series of inexplicable events surrounding an Iroquois ritual maskand a secret that could unleash the most terrifying chaos and destruction the world has ever seen. Months after Father Thomas Kelly art historian Livia Pietro and scholar Spencer George found themselves racing through Rome in a desperate effort to locate and preserve an incalculably valuable docu-ment the three are about to be reunited in New York City. Thomas still trying to assimilate what he learnedthat vampires exist and that Livia and Spencer are among themis looking forward to seeing Livia again. Livia is excited to be allowed into the back room of Sothebys for an exclusive viewing of an ancient Iroquois mask. And Spencers in love. But before the three can meet Spencer is badly injured when hes inexplicably attacked in Central Parkby a wolf. That same night a Sothebys employee is found brutally murdered. Steps from her body is the mysterious native mask undamaged amid the wreckage of a struggle. As rumors begin to swirl around the sacred object Thomas Livia and Spencer are plunged deep into a world where money Native American lore and the history of the Catholic Church collide. They uncover an alarming secret: The wolf is a shapeshifter and the mask contains a power that if misused could destroy millions of lives with the next full moon. In Skin of the Wolf Sam Cabot masterfully blends historical fact backroom conspiracy and all-encompassing alternate reality as the Noantri discover they arent the only humans set apart by their naturesthere are Others.