In medieval village, probably in England, Leandro is a young guy too clever for his own good. Orphaned after the death of his mother, a cultured woman who wanted for him a different life, he never knew his father, and to top all, he is too pretty to be considered a 'real' man. In that village he will always be the boy with the head in the clouds.

The only bright light in his situation, is the friendship with Cale, the apothecary of the village, a man arrived two years before and since then his only friend. But also this friendship is creating trouble in Leandro's heart, since he has feeling for his friend that he shouldn't have.

One night while he is alone in the woods around the village, Leandro makes the most extraordinary of the encounters, a being half human, half beast, a werewolf. Obviously when he, scared, bursts into the village, villagers only think that this is one anther oddity of that lunatic boy. Leandro knows that it's time for him to leave the village, even if leaving means not having more the chance to be with Cale.

The story is really short, less than 20 pages, but it's light and sweet. Usually an historical romance has always a 'weight' upon it, a feeling that, to be good, it needs to be big and important. This is not the feeling I had reading this short story; it mixes well the paranormal elements with the historical setting, it gives enough details to build the atmosphere, but they don't seem forced, like sometime happens when authors try to ennoble their romance with useless information.

The only lack I found is that it's too short, and so both Leandro than Cale are only hinted, we haven't a real development of them. It's a lack but it's also a compliment I have to do to the author, since I think that both characters are worthying of more, above all Cale.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/1603709053/?tag=elimyrevandra-20