Welcome to the page for the John Nicholas Datesh novel A Need Apart, also known as The Girl in the Coyote Coat, from Loiseau Media Development under its Anyway Books imprint.

The novel is an epic character-driven novel, layered, witty, challenging. Its young Adelaide Humphrys develops a dangerous nomadic temperament: She wants what she wants, willing to steal to get a particular guy or coyote coat. To her, both are for now. Worry about the aftermath? Not her thing.

When she hurts others, Adelaide is sure the damage won't outlive her stay. She does not play for keeps. Until she does. The damage will be for keeps, too.

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 Two bodies are found in the house, one of them not even the most jaded investigators will forget. Her body lies, mostly, on the bed. Cold. Wrapped only in a luxurious coyote coat.


   The how is pretty obvious. The why? That requires some telling.
   So does the who? There are only two coyote coats. Adelaide owns one, Elizabeth the other. They are linked further, fatefully, by Philip.
   Elizabeth, a young banking heiress, is a social insider. She is gentle, intelligent, open and beautiful. And married. She is beloved even by those who envy her, not to mention all the men around her, including her business partner and devoted ex-flame, Philip.
   At 18, Adelaide is a over decade younger than Elizabeth, years savvier in certain ways, as closed than Elizabeth is open. No one will  describe Adelaide as beautiful, but her presence captivates
and impossibly narrow eyes that offer no hint of what resides inside.
   Do her eyes hide a conscience? Or was it packed away during one of the many moves by her corporate climbing father? Like any permanent outsider, Adelaide has learned hooks matter, not scruples. Hooks that get her inside. Drugs and sex, just for starters.
   A few years earlier, Adelaide briefly encountered Philip in a moment seemed destined as only a flirtatious memory.
   Forget memories. Adelaide is back and way beyond flirting.
   Adelaide shares more with Elizabeth than wanting Philip. Each owns a sensual coyote coat, less to keep out cold than wrap heat inside. For each, sex on coyotes transforms furs into symbols of their passions. When betrayed, a symbol, like a need, can turn wicked.
   And so, one coyote will turn deadly.
   But for whom?