In a defeated town in northern Portugal in 1809, Suzette de Bertille, daughter of a French colonel, finds a starving youth, wolf-like, with strange golden eyes and a thousand-mile stare. Suzette alone recognizes what ails the young man she believes to be a Portuguese prisoner of war, and she is determined to help him. Her "Wolf", British Lieutenant Ranulf Haldane, is on the trail of the French troopers who slaughtered his men as they lay wounded, but what happened to him has left unable to eat until a young woman finds him and shows him how to survive. Friendship deepens into love, but Ranulf has scores to settle, and Suzette's loyalty must be to her own side. Saving Wolf is a historical romance and adventure tale that explores themes of loyalty to nation and family, honour and the mental toll a war takes on both combatants and civilians. Suzette and Ranulf face impossible odds, and they must change and grow before they find their way to happiness.