Jemmela in the Ruff

Jemmela Burch is a young, parentless woman who grew up in the foster system. She’s lived in multiple homes due to behavioral problems, but now, out on her own, she’s making steady progress working and going to the local community college. The problem is that what she took for an escalating neurological condition is actually the recurrent transformation into an extremely large werewolf. The violence of her transformations catches the eye of Weres whose job it is to educate or eliminate werewolves before they become a hazard to humans and the secrecy of werewolf society. Jemmela is considered a Rogue because of her age, discovered at twenty-three when most young Weres are collected at eleven or twelve years old. Most Rogue Weres are untenable savages that make a sack of rabid cats look like a comfy sweater, so no one is enthusiastic about her chances.
Warren Stall is the werewolf stalker sent to assess her, and he deems her salvageable despite the amount of destruction she has already caused. He forcibly enrolls her in Breckenridge School, the premier and secretive school for werewolves in the United States.
Initially Jemmela is unable to accept the situation because werewolves are a myth. It does not help that her captors are not used to dealing with students old enough to vote and drink. Jemmela is convinced she is the subject of some arcane espionage thriller, ala “The Prisoner,” and that if she accepts their version of reality then they will own her body and soul. She is stubborn as well as waspish, and she resists indoctrination into this secret world of werewolves, talents, and undead.
Karen Westfall, the instructor who should be helping her learn to control the Were, has too much psycho-baggage of her own, and cannot see why she should expend the effort on a woman she feels is already dead. Westfall chooses to stack the deck, and Jemmela has to use all the skills developed in the past to win a game with a most unpleasant jackpot: the truth. Accepting that truth while holding onto her sense of humor is the true skill.
Warren re-enters her life as her new instructor, and they both find that indoctrination into the peculiarities of Weredom is not easy at her age. There are conflicts of privacy that from Warren's perspective should make perfect sense. For Jemmela, there's got to be a way to be a good Were that does not involve public nudity.
Jemmela proves she can control herself, but finds control matters little when your one ally betrays you.