IN THE DARKENED TOWN, NO ONE COULD HEAR DANNY'S FATHER, GROWLING, HOWLING AT THE MOON.

No one knew the family secret, which had driven Danny and his sister, Miranda, and Dad out of California and all across the country to the coast of Maine.

Who would believe it?

Who would believe that at each full moon since he was attacked by some snarling creature of fantasy on Pismo Beach in California, Ken Paxton has sprouted hair on a lenghtening snout, fallen to all fours, and killed savagely?

Novelist Henry Garfield makes you not only believe it, but fear it -- for every teenager's father is, at one time or another, totally inexplicable.