With his carthorse as his only companion, young merchant Kraft Lawrence slowly wends his way through dusty back roads in search of profitable trade. One night, he encounters a harvest goddess in the guise of a beautiful young girl-- with wolf ears and a tail! Holo the Wisewolf, far from the northern lands of her birth, joins Lawrence in his travels, following the ebb and flow of trade.

"When twelve-year-old Blake is shipped away to stay with her weird aunt in Fever Swamp for the summer, she expects her weeks to be filled with video games, mosquito bites, and a whole lot of nothing. Instead, she finds herself in a spooky turf war between wolf hunters and werewolves! Blake's never let anything -- including her prosthetic hand -- slow her down or stop her from crushing her opponents in a game of Lore Hunter, but real-life monsters...

"Lawrence and Holo are on the run, desperate to save both their profits and their lives! With enforcers from a rival company in pursuit, though, Holo may need to resort to extreme measures to safeguard herself and her traveling companion. Can Lawrence cope with the terror-inspiring true form of Holo the Wisewolf?!"--P. [4] of cover.

In the Night Realm, vampires, shifters, weirns, and other night things passing for human prowl the streets ... but they still have to go to school! Ailis and Na'ya are pretty average students (NOT losers), but when a shadow starts looming and a classmate gets all weird, they are the first to notice. It gets personal, though, when Na'ya's little brother D'esh disappears--It's time to confront the secrets of the forbidden mansion in the Silent Woods!...