Hear Her Howl
Hear Her Howl by Kim DeRose, published by Union Square Publishing in 2025, is a speculative, sapphic young adult romance that explores themes of empowerment and self-discovery. This 352-page novel follows Rue, who faces exile to an all-girls Catholic boarding school after being caught kissing a girl. As she navigates her new environment, Rue encounters Charlotte Savage, a fierce outcast with a hidden identity that challenges the norms of their world.
Readers will find a narrative that intertwines elements of fantasy and contemporary issues, focusing on the awakening of inner strength among young women. As Rue and Charlotte form a bond, they discover a community of girls who embrace their wildness and reject societal expectations. This book presents a modern-day war cry for those who dare to defy convention, inviting readers to explore the complexities of identity and the power of female solidarity.
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As fiercely feminist as it is hopeful, this speculative, sapphic YA romance from the author of For Girls Who Walk through Fire is simultaneously a modern-day war cry and a PSA that there is a wolf who slumbers inside us all–we only have to wake her.
Rue’s life is over. After she’s caught kissing a girl behind the Sunday School classrooms, she gets exiled to Sacred Heart so she can be transformed into her mother’s idea of a respectable lady. The irony of being sent to–of all places–an all-girls Catholic boarding school is not lost on Rue, especially when she falls immediately and irreversibly under the spell of its ethereal, ferocious outcast, Charlotte Savage.
But there’s more to Charlotte than her sharp gaze and even sharper tongue: Charlotte Savage is, against all logic, a werewolf. And Rue can become one, too–any woman can, if she’s brave enough to heed the wild that howls inside of her.
She and Charlotte aren’t alone in answering the call, and upon forming a wolf pack of fearless girls who refuse to remain docile, Rue realizes she couldn’t have been more wrong. Her life isn’t over. It’s just beginning.
This world is not kind to women, much less wild women . . . but God help the man who tries to cage the girls of Sacred Heart.
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