title: What Should Be Wild: A Novel
author:  Julia Fine 
description: &#8220;Delightful and darkly magical. Julia Fine has written a beautiful modern myth, a coming-of-age story for a girl with a worrisome power over life and death. I loved it.&#8221; (Audrey Niffenegger, author of <em>The Time Traveler&#8217;s Wife</em> and <em>Her Fearful Symmetry</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;A hypnotizing fairy tale that explores what it&#8217;s like to live life in an unruly female body that everyone around it insists on controlling, <em>What Should Be Wild</em> </em>pulsates with originality, curiosity, terror, and pleasure.&#8221; (<em>Bustle</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;A surreally feministic tale&#8230;. Enchanting, menacing and darkly humorous, it explores women&#8217;s power and powerlessness throughout the ages.&#160; To be tamed and controlled, to be untamed and fierce&#8212;and feared.&#8221; (<em>Family Circle</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;<em>What Should Be Wild</em> is a Gothic stunner for the 21<sup>st</sup> century&#8212;provocative, luxuriant, unsettling. Prepare to be mesmerized.&#8221; (Leni Zumas, author of <em>Red Clocks</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;Without hyperbole, it&#8217;s one of the best debut novels I&#8217;ve ever read.&#8221; (<em>Chicago Magazine</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;A modern fairy tale&#8230; Fine&#8217;s story is a barely restrained, careful musing on female desire, loneliness and hereditary inheritances.&#8221; (Everdeen Mason,<em> Washington Post</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;A wonderful addition to that genre of lyrical, poetic fantasies, akin to fairy tales in their delicacy and adjacency to the real world.&#8221; (Elena Nicolaou, <em>Refinery 29</em></em>)<br /><br />&#8220;Julia Fine&#8217;s elegant prose and quick-paced storytelling cause the pages to fly by, and you&#8217;ll still be reliving each moment to trace what was real for quite some time to come.&#8221; (<em>Popsugar</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;Julia Fine&#8217;s dynamic new novel <em>What Should Be Wild</em> is a darkly comic tale with doses of magic and suspense.&#8221; (<em>Southern Living</em>)<br /><br />&#8220;Julia Fine is an exciting, excellent writer. And her voice, in <em>What Should Be Wild</em>, says, unspoken, what we all want so badly to hear when we pick up a new book: <em>Let me tell you a story... one you won&#8217;t want to end.</em>&#8221; (Josh Malerman, author of <em>Bird Box</em> and <em>Black Mad Wheel</em>)
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  _**It was an assignment he was more than prepared for—until an innocent beauty
  got caught in the cross fire**_
  
  Undercover agent Cameron Roth’s hot on the trail of a drug-running crime
  cartel. The last thing he needs is to involve an innocent woman in the cross
  fire. But when he leaps into Julia White’s home for safety, she becomes part
  of the tangled web Cam’s trying so deseparately to unravel. Smooth, solid
  Cam’s the consummate professional. But gorgeous, feisty Julia transforms the
  high-stakes assignment into something far more than business as usual. Now
  that the villains have her in their sights, Cam’s got to not only solve the
  case—but also protect the only woman who’s ever found the way into his heart.
  
   _ **“I don’t want you to go.”**_
  
  The pleas tugged at him, made him think about doing stupid things that didn’t
  fit with his life or the need to keep her protected. “You’ll be safe with
  him.”
  
  Her other hand went to his lap. Smoothed up and down his 