ABOUT THE BOOK

A modern Grimm's fairy tale and a comedy with both heart and teeth, Naked Brunch follows the adventures of the last nice girl in a fabled big city; a mysterious werewolf named Jim; a psychiatrist to werewolves; the world's luckiest reporter and an assortment of villains, media jackals, obsessed lovers and wannabes.

Annie Engel is seemingly content to be a legal secretary in a big mega-corporation. She's the kind of girl who "understands" when her boss chews her out for his own errors or the man she put through law school leaves her for another young lawyer. A soft touch for con artists, needy neighbours and her own friends, and a vegetarian who wouldn't hurt a fly, she doesn't even like to hurt people's feelings. So she is understandably horrified when she discovers she's been running loose during full moons ripping out the throats of wealthy men and having bestial sex with another wild werewolf. When Dr. Marco Potenza promises her a chance of a near-normal life through talk, drug and confinement therapy, this appeals to Annie. But the allure of the wild male werewolf is strong, and the city is teeming with human predators who are Annie's natural prey.

Can she resist her natural urge to kill? Can two wild werewolves find love while the police, the media, her psychiatrist and maverick hunters are closing in?

CRITICAL ACCLAIM

'At the heart of Naked Brunch is a moral question of some weight. Intelligent writers of mystery novels soon become aware that they are dealing with issues usually dealt with in the highest courts of law. Hayter's werewolves find their victims by zeroing in on the stench of human moral rot. When they find it, they strike with unmitigated violence. They are sneaky killers who kill other sneaky killers. Exclusively. They mete out justice. So do they themselves deserve to live or die? Can they be rehabilitated? Should they? Are they ill or are they bad?' - Toronto Globe and Mail

'With Naked Brunch, Sparkle Hayter accomplishes the near-impossible, a loopy, deftly-plotted comedy about werewolves. Can this be the start of a whole new genre of "Werewolf Chick-Lit?' - Crime Time

'Sparkle Hayter is a wonderful writer' - Marian Keyes

'The funniest thing to come out of Canada since the moose' - Red