The Wolves Of Mercy Falls Summary

The book Linger is the second book in the trilogy, ‘The Wolves of Mercy Falls’, written by Maggie Stiefvater. Every chapter is told from the perspective of different main characters so you get a good understanding of all the characters feelings. The story continues on and connects to the first book Shiver which is a love story about a girl and a boy/ wolf who fall in love.

The main character is Grace Brisbane who, in the first book, gets bitten by a wolf when she was a child, but was locked in a car and gets a high fever so she didn’t shift into a wolf. Sam Roth is one of the wolves in the pack which sometimes were in the woods behind Grace’s backyard during the winter periods. Sam gets shot as a wolf and ends up shifting back to a human and manages to drag himself onto Graces porch. She finds and helps clean him up, discovering that he is a werewolf. The two of them fall in love and start dating. …show more content…
He was in love with Olivia, one of Grace’s best friends, and couldn't live without her so he bites her, turning her into a wolf. Sam, Jack, and Olivia wanted to become human again, so they came up with a plan to inject themselves with meningitis so they get a high fever which may burn the wolf gene out of the body. Jack ends up dying because of the fever while Sam is cured and before Oliva was injected she turned into a wolf and ran away. At the end of Shiver, Beck, the leader of the wolf pack, creates 3 three new wolves.
In Linger, Grace and Sam are enjoying life together because Sam was cured and no longer shifted into a wolf when it was cold. One of the new wolves, Cole St. Clair, stops shifting despite the cold weather. He was searching for shelter and came across Isabel’s house and let himself in. Isabel finds him and immediately knew he was one of the new wolves. Isabel was still dealing with the grief of her brother dying, so she kisses Cole to try to make herself feel