Introducing…Project: Wolf

Some say the lone wolf is stronger.

Introducing the first of my current WIPs. Project: Wolf.

Star Wars Rebels meets ARROW by Madisyn Carlin in a fantasy novel with kidnappings, found family, dangerous magical relics, and wolves galore.

Gyda’s civil war has ended…but the struggle for power has not.

Lupa Ulric’s brother is kidnapped on the eve of her beta ceremony, and if she wants him back, she must work with an outsider who may be in on the plot…

Found family is one of my favorite tropes in fiction, and after reading Carlin’s Mulan retelling, ARROW, I fell in love with the dusty and wild aesthetics of wolves, the fierce loyalty of clans and tribes, and the bonds of humans and their wolf companions.

Add a dash of rich Star Wars-style lore, crimson sunsets, a chilling villain, (lots and lots of found family and Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger vibes…), and some magical scenes that will steal your breath away, and thus, Project: Wolf was born.

Fun fact, I actually just finished the first draft two days ago!

Project: Wolf features a young woman in a race against time to find her brother and protect her clan–all the while having to work with someone from the very clan that kidnapped her brother.

Have any questions about Project: Wolf? The world, setting, characters, or my writing process?

(Did I leave this post vague for a reason? Maybe…)

Please feel free to ask me everything in the comments!

Some say the lone wolf is stronger.

But a lone wolf is just that. Alone. Drifting from territory to territory, without a pack, without a side. One might be able to sneak in for a kill—but one is not two, or three, or ten. One is nothing. 

Others say “stronger together.” They open themselves to outsiders and pick no true sides. But when a new alpha challenges the old, or wild wolves rave through the young, they are left with nothing but bloody bones and clumps of fur drifting away in the wind. Two packs cannot mix. There will always be war.

I say a pack fights for their own. They protect their young, rally behind their alpha. Their territory is their own, and anyone who challenges will face the might of the pack. Packs fight for their wolves, stir the wind with their cry, and know no outsiders.

One might be able to sneak in for a kill—but a pack will overcome. One common territory may make for a bigger clump of wolves, but they will eventually end up destroying each other.

A pack will not.

Your pack is everything.