The Wolf at the End of the World

A shapeshifter hero battles ancient spirits, a covert government agency, and his own dark past in a race to solve a murder that could mean the end of the world.
The debut novel from the multi-award winning author that Library Journal describes as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction."
"I can't remember the last time I read a book that spoke to me, so eloquently, and so deeply, on so many levels. ... I'll be rereading it in the future because it's that sort of book. Richly layered and deeply resonant. An old friend, from the first time you read it." -Charles de Lint, World Fantasy Award winner
The Heroka walk among us. Unseen, unknown. Shapeshifters. Human in appearance but with power over their animal totems.
Gwyn Blaidd is a Heroka of the wolf totem. Once he led his people in a deadly war against the Tainchel, the shadowy agency that hunts his kind. Now he lives alone in his wilderness home, wolves his only companions.
But when an Ojibwe girl is brutally killed in Gwyn's old hometown, suspicion falls on his former lover. To save her, Gwyn must return, to battle not only the Tainchel, but even darker forces: ancient spirits fighting to enter our world...
And rule it.
Cree and Ojibwe legends mix with current day environmental conflict in this fast-paced urban fantasy that keeps you on the edge of your seat right up to its explosive conclusion.

Douglas Smith was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1959. When hedied unexpectedly in 2018, he was working at Guilford College in hisnative North Carolina. Before his death, he had published a chapbookof microfictions, Judgments, and had had poems in such journals asThe Gettysburg Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Hayden's FerryReview, Cimarron Review, Lake Effect, Roanoke Review, The SouthCarolina Review, and Mid-American Review. A posthumous collection,The Ceremony of Opening the Mouth: The Poetry and Prose of DouglasSmith, is forthcoming from Hermit Feathers Press.