  
“What did you see on the video?” Mishka asked in a whisper. She could not keep her curiosity to herself. She needed to know even before dinner.  
“We saw Myrtle call the cat into the nursery and then she fed it a live rat. She wasn’t even afraid to hold onto the rat by its tail,” Gillian responded.
***
While Mishka Classens practices her singing in the woods one afternoon she runs into Bruce Cameron, a handsome, famous fashion designer. 
When she confides in her friend, Gillian’s mother about the meeting, Joan tells her that Bruce is an estranged cousin of Joan’s and that he is a werewolf. 
So, Joan wants Mishka to keep Gillian away from Bruce and keep the family secret, but Gillian already has a crush on him.
Bruce wants to be a normal human because his human family does not accept him as a wolf, but he also loves his unusual powers and diverse creativity. 
Eventually he and Mishka confide in each other about their burdens in life and become close with regular meetings in the woods, where they exchange creative ideas about fashion and music. They also plan to do shows together. 
Myrtle, Mishka’s bossy grandmother is an undercover fortune teller. She had a premonition about Mishka being involved with a werewolf one day, so she wants to orchestrate Mishka’s life so that this will never happen. 
She almost has a heart attack when she finds out that Mishka is involved with Bruce. She tries everything in her power to split them apart.
After a series of weird and bad events, Mishka and Bruce find out that Myrtle is causing the problems in their lives and in their relationship. They decide to join forces against her by confusing her spells, making them powerless.



The Siren and the Wolf

The woman's presence seemed to bend the very air around her, like heat waves rising from summer pavement. Mishka remained standing, deliberately positioning herself between the intruder and the door. 


"The naval base was just the beginning," the woman said, running one finger along the edge of the phonograph's wooden cabinet. "Your friend Mr. Cameron's designs aren't just fashion, are they? The fabric responds to more than just body heat." 


Mishka's expression remained carefully neutral. "If you know enough to break into my home, you know enough not to waste time with obvious statements." 


"Fair enough." The woman's smile was razor-thin. She withdrew something from her coat—a piece of fabric that seemed to shimmer and shift, even in the dim light. One of Bruce's prototypes. "Do you know what happens when you combine his technology with certain... ancient frequencies?" 


Echoes of Power