It is 1981 in Buffalo, New York, and an angry, embittered young teen known and hated by his peers as Mike Nero is about to acquire a horrific tool of revenge -- he is about to be granted the power to transform at will into a werewolf from a most unexpected source. This novella begins his continuing saga, as he is compelled by combinations of choice and circumstance to use his newfound power to become everything from a seeker of personal vengeance...