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From Marta Acosta, who writes:
Okay, here’s my help a bitch out. I read a book many years ago by a woman author. The main character is a werewolf. She locks herself in the basement with a sack of dog food every full moon. She’s living out in the woods somewhere and often hears other woods. Some guy guesses her secret and he helps her come to terms with her wolf identity. I think she joins the pack nearby. I’d classify it as contemporary fiction, rather than as a paranormal. I remember thinking it was really well-written and captivating.
Dude saves woman from dog food? Now that is romance.
Sounds like Nora’s short story from the “Moon Shadows” anthology. Simone is 18 and backpacking through Italy when she gets attacked by a werewolf and changed. She spends the next 11 years trying to find a cure. She lives in the woods, some distance from town, and in her basement she has a laboratory where she tries out her cures. (Her business is that she makes shampoos and stuff from natural products/herbs and has a store called Luna…I think is the name.) During the full moons, she locks herself up in a cage in the basement with only her dog, Amico, as guard. The hero is Gabe (I think)…a veterinarian. She tells him her secret and he helps her find a cure.
It’s a really good story. I wish it’d been longer.
I think the book is called Wilderness, or something close to it. I bought this book about a year ago at a library sale. I remember the part about being locked in the basement with a bag dog food and thinking, “huh?”.
Sorry, I don’t remember the author and I have since gotten rid of the book.
Hope this helps.
Jen
It’s me again. The book is Wilderness by Dennis Danvers.
Jen
Yes, that definitely sounds like Danvers’ Wilderness. A movie version came out in 1996, but I don’t remember if it was any good or not. The fact that I can barely remember it implies it wasn’t so great. 😛
I remember this book! The boyfriend is captivated with penguins, I remember that. For some reason, the other details I remember were her masturbating in the bathtub and not wearing a bra under her sweatshirt in a specific scene.
I never remember the important details, it seems.
Penguins… dog food… bathtub hijinks? Damn, I have got to expand my reading list.
Thanks! It might be Wilderness, but I’d thought a woman had written it. I’ll check it out at the bookstore. The paperback version has a great new cover.
Hey! I know this one.
I agree, it is Wilderness—the main character is seeing a shrink who accidently teaches her how to change at will and has an elderly aunt who she discovers is also a werewolf.
It’s Wilderness. The movie sucks. I like camp, so I don’t say that lightly.
I read that! It’s the Nora Roberts one. I just know it is.
If I had to lock myself away in a secluded basement during “that time of the month,” I’d at least get some steaks or something. I mean, dog food? I wouldn’t feed that to my dog. *glances at the fresh turkey and liver with veggies dish in the dog’s bowl*
What can I say? My dog’s way spoiled.