It's an updated take on the werewolf legend. The curse is passed on not through a bite but via more intimate contact. Garton shows a stylistic debt to Stephen King's Salem's Lot with his small town locality, a house with a bad history and an isolation from the outside world.
Unfortunately the story doesn't really hold up. The characters are ever so slightly underdrawn while the heroes don't have enough to do.
The werewolves are described very well though (especially the transformations) and it's here that Garton's skill for gratuitous violence and gore shines through. It was a quick fun read but ultimately not close to being great horror.
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
