Nicole Taft: 2 books

As a wolf biologist, Caroline McKenna hates those old fairytales where the wolf is always the bad guy. Except when she tries to keep a lost little girl from drowning in a pond, she ends up in the Kingdom of Red—where wolves are the bad guys. And the girl she tried to save? Nowhere...

Running away is Liana Byrose’s only option. The death of her father, King of Isonice, is the fault of the secret she and her mother shared. A power that can inspire men to greatness or drive them to ruin. In the hopes of saving her people, she escapes to the neighboring kingdom with the intention...