  
“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 wolf's howl faded into the night, leaving behind an almost startling silence. Mishka's throat felt raw, but the melody still hummed through her bones like a remembered dream. 


"We need to move quickly," Myrtle said, the ancient sword still thrumming faintly in her hands. "Elena may have withdrawn, but she was right about one thing—the network is active now. All of it." 


Shaun was already on his phone. "Bruce, what's the situation in Tokyo?" 


"Chaos," Bruce's voice crackled through the speaker. "The venue's security systems are going haywire. The prototype's resonance triggered something in the building's foundation. We've got readings unlike anything we've seen before." 


Mishka pulled out her mother's recording, studying the small device with new eyes. "How did she know?" she whispered. "All these years of preparation..." 


Harmonies of the ancient Network