# Help with book title please

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 22, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-book-title-please/651026 "2013-02-22T00:16:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![binkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@binkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/binkman)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2013, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-book-title-please/651026/1 "2013-02-22T00:16:39Z")

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This novel was published in the late 1980s or early 1990s, kind of a big push as a first novel. Horror/supernatural thriller about a high school boy who, at the end of the school year, is going to meet his father in a castle (?) to discover his destiny. This boy has a crush on a boy on the swim team and they both end up going to meet Dad. There’s something about dogs (not quite werewolves, but -I think- really vicious Dobermans that chase one or both of the boys through the castle. Any clues would be appreciated. I’ve never seen anything else by the author (whose name I do not know either). Thanks.