Description: Cyrus Nygerski is nineteen when he meets his first werewolf. Unknowingly, he asks her to a 1967 Red Sox-White Sox game in Chicago -- a historic game, as it happens, for Red Sox fans like Nygerski, a minor league second baseman himself. But Jose Tartabull's game-winning throw on August 27th is just one of several spectacular events of Nygerski's summer. For it seems that he collides with Cassandra Paine not once, but twice -- in New York City in April and in Beloit, Wisconsin, the day of the famous game. And each time, he discovers, she's running away from a murder. Cassandra can foresee the future but, try as she might, she cannot alter the past -- and it is that which freewheels the two into a whirlwind of pulse-heightening suspense, some brilliant baseball, and the dangers of life and dying, in an alternate, nonlinear time line that saves Cassandra from her nightmare and hands Nygerski his dream.

This is the author's third novel about Cyrus Nygerski (the others, which follow his remarkable life after the summer of 1967, are Room 13 and Moondog, both published in paperback by Aladdin).

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