Gundabald treats her worse and worse while Hugo, his son, is a more drunken wastrel than ever. In return for that promise, Gundabald would take care of Regeane for a long time.īut when Gisela dies, the whole family falls into poverty and corruption, ending up with tattered cloths, temporary lodging in Rome and Regeane chained by the neck in the basement. Gisela panics and forces poor Regeane to drink filthy concoctions, to pray for hours, to go to church, to promise never again to change as long as she lived. When Regeane experiences her first sign of adulthood, she changes into this beautiful silver wolf. When Gisela birthed Regeane, she was relieved to find no abnormalities. Due to Gundabald's urgings and pressure, Gisela grew to believe that Wolfstan was an offspring of the Devil Himself and eventually lured him to his death.

Wolfstan was a shape shifter, a man who could change from human to a very large wolf while her mother, Gisela, was frightened at the abnormality that her husband displayed. Regeane is a half-Saxon and half-Frankish woman whose father, Wolfstan, died because of her mother, Gisela. I am not of this world or the other, and I have the right to be what I am '. My father's eyes closed before mine opened. It is the first in the Silver Wolf Trilogy. The Silver Wolf is a novel by Alice Borchardt and published by Del Rey Books in 1993. Night of the Wolf (novel) then by The Wolf King

The Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt