Charm and Strange

CHARM AND STRANGE by Stephanie Kuehn, St. Martins Griffin, 2013.

Andrew Winston Winters has a wolf inside him. That is the only way to explain the sudden bursts of violence that overtakes him, the only way he has of dealing with his past. In chapters that alternate between Drew's childhood and his adolescence, Kuehn slowly reveals the story of drew, the young and vulnerable boy and Win, the teen left to his own devices at boarding school where an horrific murder has taken place. Was it a wild animal who committed this crime? Or is the villain much closer than that? Drew/Win each wrestle with the darkness inside.