In August 2009, dazzlingly talented newcomer, Maggie Stiefvater, introduced readers to Shiver, a powerful supernatural love story. This chilling, beautifully crafted novel was an instant New York Times bestseller. Rights to thirty foreign editions of Shiver have been licensed to date, and the book is now in its third printing, with more than 150,000 copies in print within one month of publication.
Shiver brings together two teenagers against all odds. Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—watches back. He feels deeply familiar but she doesn’t know why.
Sam has lived two lives. In the cold winter months, he is a wolf, keeping the silent company of his pack and keeping careful watch over the girl he loves. And then, for a short time each year when the weather is warm enough, he is human, never daring to talk to Grace… until now.
For Grace and Sam, love has always been kept at a distance. But now it cannot be denied. Sam must fight to stay human—and Grace must fight to keep him—even if it means taking on the scars of the past, the fragility of the present, and the impossibility of the future.
Maggie Stiefvater is a twenty-seven year old writer, artist, and musician. Her debut novel, Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception, was published by Flux in 2008. She lives in rural Virginia with her husband and their two young children. For more information please visit Maggie at www.maggiestiefvater.com.
This is the story of a boy who used to be a wolf and a girl who was becoming one.
Just a few months ago, it was Sam who was the mythical creature. His was the disease we couldn’t cure. His was the good-bye that meant the most. He had the body that was a mystery, too strange and wonderful and terrifying to comprehend.
But now it is spring. With the heat, the remaining wolves will soon be falling out of their wolf pelts and back into their human bodies. Sam stays Sam, and Cole stays Cole, and it’s only me who’s not firmly in my own skin.
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