YOUNG TOURIST ON VACATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA FALLS FOR A MYSTERIOUS OLDER WOMAN AND GETS MORE THAN SHE BARGAINS FOR: Beautiful woman by day, blood lusting cougar by night, Berenice is the guardian of an ancient knowledge. She has lived through many ages of man, a solitary creature who yearns for a love lost long ago. The Canadian forest provides a last safe refuge for Berenice and here she meets a tourist couple hoping to renew their fading marriage on a wilderness camping adventure. All is not as it seems when her desire to protect is aroused by a sense of great danger lurking for the woman, Angela, who is irresistibly attracted to her. "The Cougar" is an erotic, Gothic romance about the need for love that drives us all and the many forms love can take. This story contains some explicit love scenes.