When Elena arrives, she is greeted by her ex-lover, Clayton Danvers, who bit her and made her a werewolf (without her consent). It is in Bear Valley, a fictional city in up-state New York. However, she learns that her Pack (the governing body of werewolves) is in trouble and comes to their aid, flying to Stonehaven, the country estate of the pack Alpha. She also contends with her terrible childhood and with the man who bit her and turned her into a werewolf.Įlena has settled into a somewhat normal existence, living with her architect boyfriend and ignoring her wolf side as much as possible. She struggles to deal with her other-ness and to assimilate to the human world. She lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and writes for a popular newspaper. The main character of Bitten is Elena Michaels, a woman who is the only known female werewolf in the world. She decides to leave her Pack and live in Toronto as a human, but the Pack leader calls in a favor, which leads Elena to try to help quell an uprising. It is the first book in the Women of the Otherworld series, and her first novel.Įlena Michaels is the only known female werewolf, but she grows tired of spending her life pursuing rogue werewolves and trying to control her temper and violence. Print (hardback and paperback) and audio book ( cassette)īitten is a fantasy novel by Canadian writer Kelley Armstrong, published in 2001. 1 October 2001 Viking Adult (United States), Little, Brown & co.

Bitten by Kelley Armstrong