Dana Cameron

Dana Cameron is a crime and speculative-fiction writer whose earlier work as a professional archaeologist informs her attention to evidence, artifacts, and hidden histories. Pack of Strays continues her Fangborn sequence after Seven Kinds of Hell. The series imagines werewolves, vampires, and oracles as secret protectors living among humans, while Zoe Miller struggles to understand her own place within that inheritance. In this 2014 47North volume, Zoe’s search expands the geography and mythology of the Fangborn world as new allies, enemies, and ancient objects complicate her choices. Cameron had already established herself through the Emma Fielding archaeological mysteries and award-winning short fiction before moving the Fangborn material from stories into novels. Pack of Strays shows how those strands meet: a contemporary urban-fantasy pursuit shaped by research, buried histories, and a protagonist learning that family identity can be both resource and burden. The book also prepares the wider conflict continued in Hellbender and the later Fangborn stories.