  
“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 descent into Tokyo felt like falling through layers of song. Mishka could feel them—old frequencies vibrating up through the earth, new ones humming through the city's electronics, all of them weaving together into something that made her throat ache with the need to join the chorus. 


"Picking up massive energy fluctuations from the venue," one of the containment team members reported from his equipment. "The patterns... they're similar to what we saw at the mansion, but larger. Much larger." 


Through the jet's windows, they could see the fashion show venue rising like a modernist dream of glass and steel. But now, with her senses still heightened from the earlier singing, Mishka could see something else—threads of light running through the building's foundations, pulsing in rhythm with patterns she somehow recognized. 


"Mom's research notes," she said suddenly, turning to Shaun. "The ones about the Tokyo site. She wasn't just mapping the node, was she?" 


Echoes of the Missing