title: How to Be a Werewolf: The Claws-on Guide for the Modern Lycanthrope
author:  Serena Valentino 
description: Serena Valentino is the author of How to Be a Zombie, as well as the Nightmares &amp; Fairy Tales and GloomCookie comic book series. She lives in San Francisco.
zlib_text: **Stolen**
  
    
  
   **Kelley Armstrong**
  
   _Yes, I was a werewolf, had been since I was twenty, nearly twelve years ago.
  Unlike me, most werewolves are born werewolves, though they can't change forms
  until they reach adulthood. The gene is passed from father to son-daughters
  need not apply. The only way for a woman to become a werewolf is to be bitten
  by a werewolf and survive. That's rare, not the biting part, but the surviving
  part. I'd lived mainly because I was taken in by the Pack-which is exactly
  what it sounds like…_
  
   _***_
  
   _Elena Michaels, the female werewolf who finally came to terms with her feral
  appetites in Bitten, is back-and she has company: Katzen the sorcerer; Leah
  the telekinetic half-demon, Cassandra the vampire, and Savannah the twelve-
  year-old witch who is just coming into her considerable powers._
  
   _Vampires, demons, shamans, witches-in Stolen they all exist, and they're all
  under attack. An obsessed tycoon with a sick curiosity is well on his way to
  amassing a 