Alex lives in Wren, Pennsylvania--a small, conservative town with little to offer a young gay man. Wren doesn't cater to minorities of any kind, let alone a group openly scorned by the community. So when Alex meets Morgan and finds himself the object of the handsome foreigner's affections, he willingly tumbles head-first into a passionate, animalistic, and careless affair. Meanwhile, people are dying, victims of a wild animal that has supposedly wandered into town from the surrounding national forest. After a weekend of untrammeled lovemaking, Morgan disappears, and Alex becomes deathly ill. He is convinced he's contracted a fatal venereal disease. Only after Alex has languished for days does his mysterious lover resurface. Alex discovers that he has indeed been infected, though not in any way he could have imagined: he is now a werewolf. Who else but his lover, a ruthless man/wolf, could be responsible for the deaths that are terrorizing the community? Bareback presents a new breed of lycanthrope, a thinking creature as sexual as it is savage.