cornerofmadness

Given how busy November is I'll take what I can get.

its_art had a good idea, just to share the premise a bit for people we haven't already bored to death with the details.

Splinters of Silver and Cold Iron is yet another of my damned hybrid stories, part horror, part mystery and sort of geared YA. It's set modern day in Madison WI. Tazia Dragonetti is not quite a loner at her school but certainly not in with the cool crowd with two exceptions, Ligeia and Lenore twins who do cross clique lines. Tazia's dad isn't just a homicide detective he's also the alpha werewolf of their pack. The rest of the world has no real clue werewolves even exist.

Taz's best friend is Ben Wannemaker, half Norweigan, half Hochungra Indian and all werewolf. He's sort of the class clown and has a total 80's fetish. Their otherwise typical high school life gets stood on its ear when Ligeia and Lenore find one of the star football players dead in the gym soon after he tries to bully the new kid in school, a skinny blue eyed young man who has just moved to the states from Ireland, Killian has definite loner qualities.

Tazia finds herself drawn to him, not so much in a romantic way like all her friends think (well, okay a little) but because there's something about him, a dangerous under current that she can't leave alone. What she doesn't know is he suffers from synesthesia and also is a seer who's being used and abused by his guardians and has been for years. What he isn't saying is he thinks his guardians are the killers.
As the death toll mounts, The Dragon, Taz's father, suspects Killian of being a teenaged serial killer and the elder werewolf is none too happy about his daughter's interest in this moody young man.

And for those of us doing this insanity, if you want, drop me your Nanowrimo names for the buddy thing...whatever the hell that is. I'm DocDana.