The Better to Hold You

"The sort of book that makes you want to invest in silver bullets before meeting the author." --Neil GaimanSHE KNOWS WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE.Manhattan veterinarian Abra Barrow has more sense about animals than shehas about men. So when her adored journalist husband returns from aresearch trip to Romania and starts pacing their apartment like a cagedwolf, Abra agrees to move with him to a rural mansion upstate in order to save her marriage.But while there are perks to her new life, particularly in the bedroom,Abra soon discovers that nothing in the bucolic town of Northside iswhat it seems. The local tavern serves a dangerous, predatoryunderworld. Her husband has developed feral new appetites and a rovingeye, and his lack of humanity isn't entirely emotional. As the moon waxes full, Abra must choose between trusting the man she married, taking a chance on a seductive stranger, or following her own animal instincts.From the Paperback edition.

Year

2009

Language

English

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group

Editions

3

ISBN

9780345512734

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