Blood Moon Wolf: A Teen Fantasy RomCom

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.