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When a Cherokee teen's wolf spirit guide transforms into a human girl to teach him confidence, he must choose between his crush on a rancher's daughter and the she-wolf who literally saved his life-all while navigating adoption trauma, cultural identity, and the three-year countdown until the next blood moon. A Cherokee teen. A shape-shifting wolf. Three years to choose between two worlds. Fifteen-year-old Dakota Buschkoetter has survived a lot: his mother's death, his father's imprisonment, adoption by a German woman and her military husband, and being dumped in Oklahoma with a biological father who's practically a stranger. But nothing prepared him for Chandra-the she-wolf who saves him from deadly poison, then shows up at breakfast as a human girl. According to Cherokee legend, spirit guides appear during blood moons to help lost souls. Chandra's mission? Turn this stuttering, awkward ""apple"" (red on the outside, white in the middle) into a confident Cherokee man worthy of asking Riana-the flame-haired rancher's daughter-to prom. There's just one problem: Chandra's falling in love with him too. Now Dakota's juggling: A she-wolf who doesn't understand doors, toilets, or why you can't eat the cat His birth father Sam, a holistic healer still grieving Dakota's mother Grandma Enola, who communicates in equal parts Cherokee wisdom and Star Wars quotes Riana, whose own father was a wolf spirit guide (and who definitely hates wolves) His adoptive parents, who want to drag him to Germany And a three-year countdown until the next blood moon, when Chandra must choose: human forever, or wolf forever Perfect for fans of Elatsoe, Cemetery Boys, and Heartstopper, BLOOD MOON WOLF is a YA fantasy rom-com that proves finding yourself is complicated-especially when your spirit guide keeps peeing on the houseplants.

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""Blood Moon Wolf is a YA fantasy rom-com with an authentic Indigenous voice, genuinely compelling mythology, and the kind of humor that earns both laughs and loyalty. The novel delivers deep character development, a well-constructed supernatural system with clear rules and real stakes, and a cultural specificity that lifts it well above the generic ""mystical Native"" tropes too common in the genre. This is a book the YA market needs."" ""Blood Moon Wolf: A Teen Fantasy RomCom's cultural grounding is not decorative. It is structural. Cherokee language, traditions, and history are woven into the story the way they would actually exist in someone's life, not dropped in for flavor."" ""What sets Blood Moon Wolf apart from problematic ""mystical Native"" tropes: the supernatural element (Chandra) serves Dakota's coming-of-age story rather than defining his Indigenous identity. His struggle with stuttering, adoption trauma, and feeling like an outsider at Sequoyah are grounded, contemporary teen experiences. The magic is layered on top of a fully realized person, not substituted for one."" ""Compare Blood Moon Wolf"" to how early Marvel reduced Indigenous characters to punchlines. The humor here comes from character, not culture. It is the kind of funny that makes a reader laugh and then immediately want to keep reading, because the people involved are people they actually care about."" ""Blood Moon Wolf chapters of the wolf speaking, use smell, sound, and instinct beautifully. This is where the writing is at its most alive. ...he smelled so good. It wasn't merely the herbs...but his blood. It pulsed through the vein in his neck...This is visceral without being gratuitous.""

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