Product Description

For Cheyenne Clark, there's a bad moon on the rise . . .

There's one sound a woman doesn't want to hear when she's lost and alone in the Arctic wilderness: a howl.

When a strange wolf's teeth slash Cheyenne's ankle to the bone, her old life ends, and she becomes the very monster that has haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is the man–or wolf–who's doomed her to this fate. He also wants to chop her head off with an axe.

Yet as the line between human and beast blurs, so too does the distinction between hunter and hunted . . . for Chey is more than just the victim she appears to be. But once she's within killing range, she may find that–even for a werewolf–it's not always easy to go for the jugular.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15611 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-06
• Released on: 2009-10-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780307460837
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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From Publishers Weekly
Nipped by a wolf during an Arctic camping expedition, Cheyenne Clark suddenly finds herself feeling ferally frisky when the moon is up in Wellington's far from routine werewolf tale. It turns out that Monty Powell, the loner who gives Chey refuge, is no ordinary guy, but the werewolf who turned her. But then Chey is no ordinary camper: she was sent to draw Monty out by a band of professional hunters who want the oil beneath the vast acreage Monty prowls—and to avenge the death of her father, whom Monty coincidentally slaughtered two decades before. Wellington (23 Hours) gets surprising mileage out of this tortuously improbable plot, hinging it on Chey's difficulty choosing between the gun-toting human mercenaries who are using her as bait and Monty, a victim of supernatural circumstances who understands her plight better than anyone else. (Oct.)
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Review
"Entertaining and thrilling...Wellington is a vivid storyteller, whether describing gruesome attacks, expressing the subtle attraction between man and woman or chronicling the life of a troubled teen"
-Associated Press


From the Trade Paperback edition.

Review
"Entertaining and thrilling...Wellington is a vivid storyteller, whether describing gruesome attacks, expressing the subtle attraction between man and woman or chronicling the life of a troubled teen"
-Associated Press

Customer Reviews

Traditional Werewolf Tale
Frostbite is an intriguing werewolf tale set in the arctic Canadian forest that relies on the formulaic style of start with the end, then go back and explain what led up to it, which makes for a somewhat disorganized pacing. However, once the novel gets going, the characterization is compelling enough to drive readers through the story.

For those werewolf aficionados, the novel observes traditional werewolf mythology: transformation by moonlight, a lethal aversion to silver, super-strength, and crazed bloodlust during transformation, and its "werewolves" are actual wolves, and not wolf-men. However, the "mythology" behind the Lycanthropy curse and its origins is never explained.

There are a few minor plot holes that strain suspension of disbelief--such as how Chey's cell phone could still work after being caught in a flash flood--and certain character motivations (not all of which are answered by novel's end) but overall, the novel is well-crafted with engaging characters that drive the story.

Part One opens when Cheyenne "Chey" Clark is caught in a sudden flash flood in the Canadian Drunken Forest. After barely escaping this natural disaster, she is chased and treed by a pack of wolves who abandon her at the onset of a more dangerous predator--a werewolf. The larger wolf's bloodlust forces Chey to climb higher in order to avoid its attempts to savage her, but not before one its claws slices her ankle.

Chey's resulting sickness carries her through the forest searching for help until she stumbles upon a campfire tended by Dzo, a peculiar man in a mask. Despite his obvious eccentricities, Chey is forced to rely on Dzo's aid as he takes her to his friend Monty Powell's cabin, whom Chey immediately suspects of being the werewolf who attacked her. Readers are left to wonder why--in spite of this uncanny realization--Chey offers no resistance to sleeping in Powell's cabin.

Upon waking, Chey discovers her injury alarmingly healed and escapes after overhearing a conversation about her imminent murder. On the run, Chey experiences her first werewolf transformation and finds herself hunted by Powell. After a suspenseful confrontation between them, Powell confesses the tale of how he inherited the werewolf curse, and Chey comes to the reluctant realization that she needs his guidance in order to survive.

Part Two delves into Chey's biographical history from age seven to present, and the freak car accident resulting in her father's murder by a werewolf, prompting her vengeful mission to find the animal responsible. New characters are introduced provoking ultimately unanswered questions about believability--paving the way for a potential sequel--including an apparently public, quasi-military "werewolf research organization" into which Chey is drafted.

Part Three thrusts readers back into the present as the werewolf hunters invade the forest in search of Powell. The fast-moving conclusion focuses on Chey's internal struggle to accept her newfound identity and learn from Powell--her father's murderer--or side with the human world who may quite possibly damn her now that she has been turned.

I gave the book 4 stars because I'm a huge werewolf fan, and found Chey's tale much more interesting than others, but there are several questions I would have liked answered, specially about Dzo, whose originas are foreshadowed but never discussed.

true wellington
i have only one question what and where is Dzo at the end? other than that, this is a good book. starts kind of predictable at first and then really takes off with a few twists. really like the chapters going back in chey's childhood before and after the attack. like 13 bullets, i read this is a day or so. once it gets going and you get into it you will be hungry like the wolf!!

A Fresh Werewolf Tale
Frostbite is fast-paced and full of action, it did not disappoint. The characters are interesting and the brand of lycanthropy in the book is so devastating to their lives that it's hard not to sympathize with them. The settings are fleshed out and vivid. The only thing I didn't care much for were the transformation scenes, they were just too simple. Otherwise, Frostbite is a fresh and fun new addition to the werewolf genre.