For those who enjoyed reading books like Where the Crawdads Sing and My Sister's Keeper.

Mackenzie Fraser witnesses a drunk driver mow down her seven-year-old sister and her mother blames her. Then she ends up in juvie on a trumped-up drug charge. Now she’s in the fight of her life...on the inside! And she’s losing.

From the ashes rises the phoenix. As a family descends into an abyss of pain, so Mackenzie fights to discover her own way out of the overwhelming circumstances of her sibling's death.

"Susan Wingate is gifted at capturing these shifting nuances as events continue to pull characters apart and put them back together like puzzles, albeit in a different way. How the Deer Moon Hungers carries the reader through this process, creating a powerful and memorable saga that is hard to put down and lingers in the mind long after the story is over." (Diane Donovan, Senior Editor, Midwest Book Review)