Hear Her Howl - Hardcover

by Kim DeRose (Author)

A 2026 Rise: A Feminist Book Project List selection

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 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.

Author Biography

Kim DeRose is the author of For Girls Who Walk through Fire, which received a starred review from School Library Journal, praise from Kirkus Reviews and Booklist, and was selected for ALA's 2025 Rise: A Feminist Book Project list. She grew up in Santa Barbara, California, earned her MFA in film directing from UCLA, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY as a recovering Catholic and ex-good girl. When she's not writing or reading, she can be found listening to endless podcasts, taking long walks through the woods (of Prospect Park), and teaching her children how to howl. You can visit her at kimderose.com.