Middleport Harbor is a strange city, a place where the supernatural exists. Dark fairies, elementals, undead ... and werewolves-the lupo mannaro-arrived in Middleport Harbor decades ago, on a ship where bloodshed and death occurred in a darkened hull because a black curse followed it over the sea. The wolf women begin to die when their childbearing years have finished, and Ellery Bento is dying. Her daughter, Geneva, wants to make a heinous deal with a deadly shadow queen to save her. She's warned not to go any further, but a street urchin named Rina has already set evil in motion. Will Geneva save her mother? Or will the paranormal beings of Middleport Harbor intervene?