BORCHARDT, ALICE — The Silver Wolf

New York, Ballantine. 1998, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0345423607) Hardcover. Book, Decadent Rome in the Dark Ages is mired in a crumbling grandeur. Into the Eternal City comes Regeane, a beautiful young woman distantly related through her dead mother to Charlemagne. Regeane's regal blood renders her an unwilling pawn in the struggle for political power. But unknown to those plotting her destiny, the blood she has inherited from her murdered father gives her preternatural agility and strength, primal memories extending back thousands of years and senses so keen they can pierce the veil of death itself. Regeane is a shapeshifter, woman and wolf, hunter and hunted.451p. Near Fine/Fine.