This is the magical follow-up to 'The Monster Who Wasn't'. The second book in this rich and strange fantasy series will make us all believe in monsters - be they good, bad or somewhere in between. Sam might be half-monster and half-fairy, but since finding a loving family with the Kavanaghs, his daily life has been all human. And now he's facing one of the greatest human challenges - starting secondary school. But Sam barely has time to worry about the strange stuff teachers say (why do they call it the Great War when it sounds like was anything but great?) before he is thrust back into the world of monsters. Sam's school friends Amira, Hazel, and Wilfred reveal that they are shifters: noble twin-souled beings who live half their lives as humans and the other half as dogs.