Gem Rats

by Lisa Loomis

Stella Kennedy, a personal trainer in the small town of Jackson Hole, from afar seems to have her life together. A nice husband, a beautiful home, good children, and a body she is obsessive about keeping fit. When a handsome younger gym member gets overly flirty with her it becomes clear, to some of Stella’s clients, that trouble may be brewing in paradise.

Set in a highly competitive tourist town where everyone knows everyone else’s business a group of seven women bond through their narcissistic personal trainer. These work out “gem rats” come from a variety of backgrounds, many affected by their high society attitude and money. Relationships and tenuous friendships form and are tested as life’s challenges present themselves to each of the women differently.

Genres: Chick Lit

286 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 10, 2012

About the author

Lisa Loomis was born in Oakland California and raised in San Jose until she was a sophomore in high school. Her father then took a job in the San Diego area where he moved the family to Escondido, California (or hickville as she called it). She finished high school at San Pasqual High then went to junior college at Palomar JC, ultimately graduating from San Diego State University with a BS in Finance.

Lisa started a career in mortgage banking in San Diego, California, briefly shifted to a corporate job as a territory sales representative, and then back to mortgage banking in 1996 when the family moved from the San Diego area to Park City, Utah. The move to Park City was prompted by a desire for a lifestyle change. Both she and her husband Dennis wanted to raise their two children in a smaller town environment that was still close to a large city.

In Park City Lisa not only ran a mortgage branch but simultaneously helped Dennis run a successful construction company, Loomis Construction. Working full time, running a construction company in off hours, and raising two children was never easy but Lisa seemed to handle it all pretty well until the financial meltdown of 2008. That is when the wheels came off…completely.

Finding both her career in mortgage banking and the family business almost vanish overnight Lisa went back to a passion she’s always had, writing. It took Lisa almost four years to write “Boy In A Band”, stopping and starting, telling herself she couldn’t write a book. Once it was written Lisa foolishly thought the hard part was finished. In the last ten years Lisa has continued to help her husband with their construction business as well as spends time writing.

Lisa’s currently lives and writes in Park City, Utah. She has been married for twenty-nine years and enjoys spending time with their grown children who live in Salt Lake City. You can find her self-published books on Amazon.

Visit her at www.LisaLoomisBooks.com or follow Lisa on Facebook and Twitter

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lisa never lets me down. There is a lot going on in this book. Seven VERY different women going through different stages of life's little drama's. Betrayals, mid life craziness and uncertainty pursues the friends . Very well written and entertaining. I would say it is one of my favorites but I have loved all of her books and they are all my favorites. :)

[Paula · Rating 1 out of 5]

Too many characters made it hard to follow the storyline. One of the characters stops being mentioned toward the end of the book and no reason is given. Also there is little to no closure on most of the characters at the end of the book.

[Amy]

Another freebie. Couldn't keep track of all the characters for some reason.