Jess Taylor grew up in a culture where hunting and trapping weren’t just pastimes, they were tradition, skill, survival, and legacy.

Like Jess in "We Weren’t Meant to Be Wolves", many of us learn these things at the side of someone we love. For Jess, it was her dad.

There’s honor in providing for your family. There’s wisdom in knowing the land. But there also comes a time, sometimes quietly, sometimes painfully, when we start to question what we’ve inherited. Not because we’re ungrateful, but because we’ve changed. Or the world has. Often both.

Jess never set out to betray her roots. But when science, emotion, and instinct collide, she starting asking hard questions:

Why do I keep doing this if it's not to put food on the table? And how can I honor family traditions without rejecting my family or their lifestyle? How do I tell them I've changed?

This story isn’t anti-hunting. It’s not anti-anything. It’s about growing up. Waking up. Making peace with where you come from, even if that peace looks a little wild.

If you’ve ever carried a legacy you weren’t sure you believed in, you’ll understand.

Set in the remote Adirondacks, where wolves have returned after a century-long absence, We Weren’t Meant to Be Wolves is a chilling and darkly humorous story rooted in real-world conservation, identity, and the blurry lines between what we love and what we fear.