Just when I thought I couldn’t take yet another supernatural romance, along comes Shiver to blow that notion out of the water!

Shiver is the unashamedly romantic story of a teenage girl, Grace, who falls in love with a werewolf, Sam. Grace has had a lifelong fascination with wolves after surviving a harrowing wolf attack when she was younger. Shiver puts an interesting twist in standard werewolf mythology: the werewolves are human during the warmer months and become wolves in cold weather.

When Grace finally meets Sam as a human, he is in his last summer before changing permanently into a wolf. The two teenagers have to fight the dropping temperature, and other dangerous forces in town, to keep their love alive. Told in the alternating voices of Grace and Sam, Shiver stands out from the pack, due to its poetic language, successful evocation of a cold Minnesota town and the surrounding woods, and the believable romance between its main characters.