Memoirs of a Shape-Shifter

Nikki Helmik—anger-prone, no-longer-young feminist, single mother, and erstwhile Cambridge lawyer—following her father’s recent death has returned to the vacant family home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, to begin a new and quieter life. Her yellow-shingled cottage lies under the branches of mysterious Dogtown woods, once home to Druids and witches. But Nikki grows increasingly unsettled to find herself caught by the charms of the princely Philip, a married man who has recently moved back to ...