TAYLOR BROWN’S Wolvers (St. Martin’s Press) drops readers into southwestern New Mexico’s rugged Gila Wilderness, where the reintroduction of Mexican gray wolves has reignited old tensions. At the center is Trace Temple, a displaced rancher hired to hunt a legendary she-wolf named One-Eleven—until the land, and the animal, begin to change him. Brown captures the Gila’s “ragged blue canyons, flickering streams, moonstone bluffs and broad plains” as both setting and force. Alternating perspectives, including that of the wolf, lend complexity and depth to this timely and well-researched story exploring New Mexico’s contested landscapes. A modern Western with teeth, Wolvers blurs the line between hunter and hunted, asking who—and what—the West is really for.