Mooncakes

Nova Huang is a teenage witch in a New England town, and she knows more about magic than most. She works in her grandmothers' bookshop, where she lends out spell books and looks into anything supernatural that happens nearby.

One night she goes into the woods after reports of a white wolf. Instead she finds Tam Lang, her childhood crush, fighting a horse demon. Tam is a werewolf who has moved from place to place for years and has never been able to settle in one town.

Dark forces want the magic that wolves carry, and Tam has run out of options. Tam asks Nova for help, and the old feelings between them start to stir again as the two deal with witchcraft, magic Nova has never tried, and occult rituals.

This is a graphic novel with a young adult romance at its center and a fantasy plot around it. Family matters throughout, both the relatives the characters already have and the ties they are only now forming. The tone is warm and the mood is enchanting, with the danger kept close behind the sweetness. Nova and Tam each have some self-discovery to get through along the way.