Promise of the Wolves by Dorothy Hearst

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Promise of the Wolves was an amazing book and I highly recommend this to anyone who loves wolves. We get to see things from the eyes of the main character, Kaala. She is a wolf who’s very birth was forbidden since her mother was not the mate of the leaderwolf, Ruuqo. Even worse, she has outsider blood in her. Her litter mates are killed before her eyes and just before Ruqqo can kill her as well she is spared by the Greatwolves who make the rules for all of wolf kind and speak with the ancients. Kaala’s mother is banished and now the young pup must now be part of a pack with a leader who hates her, and pups who want her gone. As she grows she finds that she is drawn to the humans but there is a covenant that wolf and human must never come together. However, when Kaala rescues a human girl from drowning in the river, everything changes. We follow Kaala’s journey as she tries to gain acceptance into the pack and be with her human as well. What she doesn’t know, is that her role in the future of wolf and human kind is far greater than she could ever have imagined.