Review: Alphas In The Wild by Ann Gimpel

04 January of 2016 by Jean

Reviewer's Rating: 5

5.0Overall score

I’ve come to talk with you again… a second chance at love.

Alphas In The Wild By Ann Gimpel

Paranormal Romantic Fantasy

Released December 21, 2015

Self-Published

Reviewed by Jean

Dark. Delicious. Unforgettable.
The hottest alphas live–and love–in the mountains.
Action adventure, paranormal romance collection with three full-length books.

Go ahead! Tumble into second-chance love where magics collide and mountain gods are out for blood.

Hello Darkness:
Earth magics collide, forcing Moira Shaughnessy to take a chance on a man who hurt her so badly she never forgave him.
A ranger for the U.S. Park Service, Moira is in serious trouble. Fleeing from her cheating husband, a Native American shaman, she stumbles into the arms of a man she never thought she’d see again. He hurt her once by choosing his magic over her. Would she be a fool to take a chance on him now?

Alpine Attraction:
Tina made a pact with the devil seven years ago. It’s time to pay the piper—or die.
Independent to the nth degree, she meets everything in her life head-on—except love.
Caught between misgivings and need, she signs on as team doctor for one of Craig’s climbing trips to the Andes. Though he was the love of her life, she pushed him away years before to keep him safe. Even if he doesn’t love her anymore, there’s still no one she’d rather have by her side in the mountains. And if she’s going to die, she wants to make things right between them.

A Run For Her Money:
Sara’s day begins like any other. A routine extraction in tandem with a local Search and Rescue team. Routine crashes to a halt when she ends up trapped in a hut, high in the Sierras. Four days later, running out of food for herself and her dog, she makes a bold dash for safety.

Jared’s walking the Muir Trail when all hell breaks loose. After hunkering beneath a boulder pile for days, he dares a difficult cross-country route, hoping it’ll put him into position to approach a backcountry ranger station. He locates the station, but it’s locked tight. He’s packing up to leave when a helicopter lands, with Sara at the helm. There’s no time to trade war stories. It takes a leap of faith, but they throw in their lot together. Can they face the impossible and come out the other side unscathed?

I’ve come to talk with you again… a second chance at love.

Alphas in the Wild is a collection of three full-length novels that are all based on relationships made on the backcountry trails, treks and climbs of the mountains. Life is immediate and survival is dangerous. Each of the three tales gives you that sense of immediacy and adventure.

In Hello Darkness, Moira is forced to confront the past and forge a new future when her cheating ex decides if he can’t have her then no one will. This is one Native American shaman that has done everything to corrupt the beauty of shamanism and become a man that not even his father would approve of. When his befouled magic comes up against that of an arch druid, though, his days might just be numbered because Tim will do everything in his power to save the love of his life, including calling upon the dark side of his powers.

Alpine Attraction takes us to the majestic peaks of the Andes mountains where a pact with a wily god has left Tina counting her days and unable to accept the love of the only man she’s ever wanted. When the two of them are reunited on the cold climes of the Andes once again, it will be a fight for their lives and their love… a fight Craig is more than willing to engage in with a god if it means he gets the woman of his dreams.

Sara is a happy forty-something recluse caring for her beloved mountain trails as a park ranger. When a trip up the mountain with her SAR’s dog has her cowering from alien spaceships she’s not sure what she’ll discover when she leaves her hideaway. She certainly didn’t expect to find the love of her life in Jared. Jared left behind the hustle and bustle of the city for a backcountry hike never expecting to find himself fleeing cross-country from the destruction wrought by aliens nor helping a bunch of NASA scientists save the world. A Run for Her Money will have you rooting for the survival of mankind and the demise of invading aliens but most of all it will have you melting at this second chance at love for Jared and Sara.

Ann Gimpel once again shows she knows how to combine action, adventure, and romance. While these stories may seem so very different with their paranormal and sci-fi elements they are wonderful tales of second chance love and romance.