SOLVED. YA Fantasy novel about two feuding families. There's a mirror. They turn into wolves. [s]

[Molly]

I'm looking for a book I read a long time ago when I was 12. It's a young adult fantasy novel set in a world where two families are feuding. There's a girl who turns into a wolf and she's trying to save her family who live in a cliffside complex. There's a mirror that is evil I think and it smells like honeysuckle when it tries to do something. There's also a guy who turns into a wolf as well. I can't remember what their names are but they spend time on a ship and I think maybe her last name starts with a G....

The really ironic thing is I can remember exactly where it is in my childhood library's shelves hahah. Author was a woman and the cover art was ATROCIOUS. The main girl is standing on a cliff overlooking her family's home and an ocean and she has reddish hair and she's wearing leather clothes and holding the mirror.

[Delana]

The Wolf Charmer?

[El]

Do you know the author of that, Delana? The Wolf Charmer by Jane Senese just came out in 2016, so I don't think that's the right one.

[Molly]

Yeah this book came out in the late 90s, very early 2000s. I think I read it for the first time in 2003.

It's definitely not a NYT bestseller hahaha

[Angela]

Diplomacy of Wolves by Holly Lisle?

From Amazon:

"Book 1 of the Secret Texts series is set in a world considerably more urban and urbane than traditional fantasy quest epics. Dirigible balloons ("airibles") coexist with Machiavellian plotting, Borgia-like malevolence, and deadly family rivalry resembling that of the Montagues and Capulets in Romeo and Juliet. There's magic, too, forbidden but still furtively used: Each clan has its concealed corps of "Wolves," black magicians who conduct cruel sacrifices and may become physically monstrous from spell backlash. Young heroine Kait is a diplomat trainee and secretly a shapeshifter--that is, accursed and marked for death if ever exposed. After a horrific clash of wizardry and assassination that almost wipes out her clan, she takes ship in search of the ancient Mirror of Souls, which according to legend can bring back the dead. But legends may be booby-trapped: Kait and other characters become guided by helpful spirit voices, gods with their own agenda and no love of humanity, and the Mirror's real function may be altogether different. Meanwhile, a long-dead sorcerer who opposed the gods with his own white-magic cult awaits rebirth. The magic and its transforming side effects are exhilaratingly horrid; the novel ends with a whopping cliffhanger. --David Langford, Amazon.co.uk"

[Molly]

THAT'S IT THAT'S IT OH MY GOD!!!!