the Dealer and Wolf: Alternate Timeline

In the decaying, gray suburb of Oakhaven, sixteen-year-old Spike Graves lives in the shadow of his older brother, Griffin. But as the full moon approaches, the shadows begin to shift. While Griffin's transformation into a charismatic, predatory monster is rapid and violent, Spike finds himself struggling to suppress a dormant, lethal hunger of his own. As students begin to vanish from Oakhaven High, Spike discovers the horrific truth: his brother has turned their basement into a trophy room of death and is using his newfound predatory allure to hunt their peers. Caught between a crumbling sense of morality and the terrifying, animalistic instincts clawing at his throat, Spike must decide how much of his humanity he is willing to sacrifice. With the help of Honey, a guarded ice-skater and substance dealer who sees past his goth exterior, Spike attempts to orchestrate a desperate stand against the brother he once loved. But as the lines between brotherhood and blood-letting blur, Spike realizes that the monster in his blood is far more dangerous than the one in his brother's. In this visceral, coming-of-age descent into madness, Spike faces a tragic truth: to stop a predator, he may have to become one.