Erotic Paranormal Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M, shape-shifters]
Recently divorced from her high school sweetheart, Chelsea Goebel begrudgingly accompanies her best friend on a work trip to Savage Valley, Colorado. A strange encounter with a mountain lion in the wild leads her to meet Oliver Cash, mayor of Savage Valley, and his brother Roarke.
Mountain lion-shifters Oliver and Roarke instantly know Chelsea is their mate, and they want her as soon as possible. But Chelsea convinces herself she wants only a rebound fling with the sexy shifters, and the brothers set out to prove they want more.
But a darkness looms over Savage Valley. The conglomerate NormCorp wants to buy up Savage Valley, and a drought and strange animal attacks have the townspeople anxious. Oliver and Roarke need to mate Chelsea to strengthen themselves for a fight. It’s up to Chelsea to get over her past, accept her lion-shifting mates, and help Oliver and Roarke save Savage Valley.
Note: There are two different series in the Savage Valley, Colorado collection. The Pride of Savage Valley series by Helena Ray is mountain lion-shifters. Rugged Savage Valley by Edith Dubois is bear-shifters. Each book features a different romantic trio or quartet. Even though the two series take place in the same setting with crossover characters and share an external story arc, each of the series can stand alone.
This is a well-written and engaging story with two very sexy alpha males and a strong heroine who has suffered some pretty devastating setbacks in her life without being broken. The plot is full of action and erotically charged love scenes. Oliver and Roarke might be brothers, but they have very different personalities and methods of wooing Chelsea. Their concern for their town is more than admirable, but Chelsea could have used a bit more of their attention. I really liked the other residents of the town and I would definitely like to read more about her friend, Marta. I was also intrigued by the idea of bear shifters as well as mountain lion ones in the town.
Helena Ray’s Mountain Pride combines two romance genres, paranormal shifters and m/f/m menage into one exciting story. Ms. Ray does a bit of world building to construct the canon of Savage Valley and then does a fine job of maintaining continuity throughout the book. There are parallel books set in Savage Valley, written by different authors. Ms. Ray writes about mountain lion shifters and Edith Du Boise writes about Savage Valley’s bear shifters in another series of books, beginning with Rugged Glimpse. We are introduced very briefly in Mountain Pride to the sheriff and his deputy as possibly being bear shifters so I’m looking forward to following both Savage Valley shifter/menage series. It’s an interesting concept in co-writing that I plan to enjoy.
Mountain Pride is one of two in the Savage Valley, Colorado series written by Helena Ray. Mountain Pride is about the mountain lion shifters on the mountain. I didn't really care for this one as much as the other one. Even though it says it doesn't matter which one you read first, it kinda did to me. It seems that at one piont I was reading about something or someone killing off animals but then I turn the page and everything is solved and it doesn't even tell you what happened. There is no suspense because it all happens in the other book and the romance and sex in the book was nothing to write about.
Cute small town, but that could have been more developed
Hunky mountain lion-shifters - all over town!
Lots of action
Smex, but not TOO much
I will be reading the next book. There is also a 'companion' series about the same town (but with bear-shifters), 'Rugged Savage, Colorado'. First book in that is 'Rugged Glimpse'.