Ms. Gimpel always offers an entertaining read. While this one doesn’t have as much world building and isn’t as strong on the fantasy aspects it definitely delivers on the scorch meter.

What I recall of history and the 1930’s specifically is that while some women worked outside the home the number was still infinitesimal. Expectations still said a woman married and had children. Those that did have careers worked in acceptable fields such as nursing and teaching. Not so with Alice. Alice went off to college and got an engineering degree. Then she struggled a full year to find a position. Not an easy feat when most employers didn’t want to invest in an employee they fully expected to lose to marriage and family. Combine this with her tall and gangly build and penchant for mountain climbing and she didn’t exactly have men beating down her door for dates. The one man she held out hope for, her climbing partner Brent, showed little to no interest no matter how she attempted to entice him. That being the case it would be pretty easy to hang up any expectations of losing her virginity let alone having a family someday. That is until the day Brent ran off and deliberately deserted her on their descent down the mountainside. Left alone in the cold wilderness with night fast approaching, Alice struggled her way down the unfamiliar and dangerous terrain searching for her climbing partner. Instead, she was found by one of the visiting inhabitants of Lon Chaney’s cabin and her world was forever altered.

Life for shifters had forever altered. No longer were there an abundance of wide open spaces to shift in. No longer were they prized by women everywhere as potential mates. Instead, they struggled to exist alongside humans that hunted them. Their numbers continued to dwindle and things were becoming rather desperate for the shifter clans when it came to finding their mates and preventing the extinction of their species. Jed and his family pack which includes his two lieutenants, Terin and Bron have been searching for a potential mate for centuries. Jed as the alpha of the Wolf clan is a bit over 800 years old. He long ago came to the conclusion that sex just for the act with a woman had become tedious and boring. He could just as easily get the same relief from his hand. His lieutenants had pretty much come to the same conclusion. But the moment Jed scented Alice life took another drastic turn. All systems were a total go when it came to making this woman theirs. The only problem… a mate bond couldn’t be made by deceit. The woman had to be fully engaged and know what she was getting into or he’d be forced to wipe her memories and live a life tied to her and never knowing the love and satisfaction of life with his mate. Presenting her with one mate was challenge enough… presenting her with three… this was going to take some quick maneuvering and crafty dialog.

Alice’s Alphas has its elements of danger and a bit of action but for the most part, it’s all about the developing relationships and the scorching results. It’s a fairly quick read and a great start to the Wolf Clan Shifter series. I’m certainly looking forward to Megan’s Mates.

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Wolf Clan Shifters Series

Coming April 18, 2016!

Megan’s Mates, Book 2

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Coming May 2, 2016!

Sophie’s Shifters, Book 3

I’m basically a mountaineer at heart. I remember many hours at my desk where my body may have been stuck inside four walls, but my soul was planning yet one more trip to the backcountry.
Around the turn of the last century (that would be 2000, not 1900!), I finagled a move to the Eastern Sierra, a mecca for those in love with the mountains. Stories always ran around in my head on backcountry trips, sometimes as a hedge against abject terror when challenging conditions made me fear for my life, sometimes for company.
Eventually, the inevitable happened. I returned from a trip and sat down at the computer. Three months later, a five hundred page novel emerged. It wasn’t very good, but it was a beginning. I learned a lot between writing that novel and its sequel, and I’ve been writing ever since.
In addition to turning out books, I enjoy wilderness photography. A standing joke is that over ten percent of my pack weight is camera gear, which means my very tolerant husband has to carry the food — and everything else too.