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This is not a story that begins with 'once upon a time' and ends with 'happily ever after'. This is raw and real and true. But the stories we read as kids got one thing right. You should never go into the woods alone.

Matthew Rothbart was a high school senior on a camping trip with several other teenagers when he wandered off from the rest of the group while gathering firewood. While on his own, he was attacked by a very large wolf, one nearly the size of a car. Though he survived, and somehow made it back to the campsite, that encounter would change his life forever.

Being a werewolf gave Matthew a horrible temper and strength he couldn't dream of having before. But it also led to close encounters with hunters seeking the wolf who'd bitten him. Rather than stay in his hometown and live in fear, Matthew's chosen to take to the road, working odd jobs for a little cash to fill his gas tank. He doesn't know where he's going, yet--occasionally he spends a few months at a time in a town before his instincts tell him to flee again.

He can't run away from the wolf within.

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