"A daring and vibrant new voice on the female literary frontier . . . a stunning initiation into a dark and dazzlig realm."--Anne Rice Into decadent Rome of the Dark Ages comes Regeane, an enigmatic young woman distantly related to Charlemagne. But the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. Regeane is a shapeshifter--woman and wolf, hunter and hunted--possessed of preternatural agility...