Shadow Dancers fuses elements of the horror genre with traditional fantasy and creates such a place. Instead of ogres and trolls it has werewolves and vampires. Angels and demons replace sorcerers and wizards. Its endangered princess is a N.Y.U. student, its reluctant hero is a New York detective, and its half-caste, tormented, champion of justice is a Shadow Dancer, who has wandered the earth for six millennia. This far away land of magic and mystery exists within the shadows of New York City. This is the home of Shadow Dancers. In Shadow Dancers, Detective Jeffery Cole has the "good fortune" of investigating a Central Park murder that appears to have no logical solution. There are two witnesses and both are equally unreliable; one seems crazy; the other has nothing to say. The crazy one is a young lady, Tricia Morningstar, who claims that her friend was killed by were-wolves. The other witness is a mystery man, an ex-cop, from Detroit, named James Brooks. The problem with him is simple. According to all accounts, Officer Brooks died two years ago. Who is this man, really? Why won't he tell Cole what he knows? The more Cole investigates the case, the stranger things become. He is drawn into a world that shouldn't exist, a world governed by a simple rule: things are not as they appear.