Winter's Blood: a Werewolf Novella

When Michael McGavin thinks of Christmas Eve, he doesn't think of snowmen, candy canes, or mistletoe. Instead, he thinks of darkness, of twisted steel and shattered glass. He thinks of the car crash that nearly killed him, and of all the times he wished it had. He thinks of how much Abigail had loved the snow. On the sixth anniversary of both the crash and Abigail's resulting death, Michael returns home to spend Christmas with his family. His one and only hope is that this year passes...
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When Michael McGavin thinks of Christmas Eve, he doesn't think of snowmen, candy canes, or mistletoe. Instead, he thinks of darkness, of twisted steel and shattered glass. He thinks of the car crash that nearly killed him, and of all the times he wished it had. He thinks of how much Abigail had loved the snow. On the sixth anniversary of both the crash and Abigail's resulting death, Michael returns home to spend Christmas with his family. His one and only hope is that this year passes as smoothly and quietly as the others have. And then a single gunshot changes everything. Now, with an eerily wolfish bite mark on his shoulder, Michael learns the shocking truth behind his car crash. A truth that will force him to make a terrible choice between two different lives and two kinds of love. Whatever his decision, Michael knows he must make it soon. Because the bite mark is fading by the hour, giving him less than two days before his first transformation...