Canyon Wolf Bride

by Alisha Paige

When Olympic ski champion, Sean Wilson, takes his best friend's widow, museum curator, Paige Wellington, on a vacation to The Grand Canyon, he's attracted to more than the beauty of his companion and the magnificent scenery. Sean discovers an entire pack of werewolves thriving in a canyon paradise. The Havasupai, known as the people of the blue-green waters, share his genetic defect, the werewolf gene. Paige learns the secret of the wolf tribe and struggles with her decision to end their relationship, unable to imagine herself married to a half-man, half-wolf creature and bear his fuzzy, carnivorous children. Sean wars against the beast within. Even as the werewolf, he is an intelligent and keen animal, never losing touch with the man lurking beneath the fur and never losing sight of the woman he loves. Will the wolf gene keep them together or tear them apart?

Genres: Romance, Paranormal Romance, Paranormal

252 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 12, 2007

About the author

Alisha Paige lives in the deep South with her husband and three children. She writes under the pen names Alisha Paige (paranormal, fantasy and vintage romance), Ruby Vines (romantic suspense) and Wolfgang Pie (children’s fiction and young adult novels).

Canyon Wolf Bride was her debut novel in 2007. The book was nominated for best paranormal romance of 2007 by Long and Short Reviews and received rave reviews by Night Owl Romance, My Book Cravings, Two Lips Reviews, Coffee Time Romance and Fallen Angel Reviews. Her paranormal romance Circle City: Lord of the Wolfen sat on the best seller’s list at Amazon for ten weeks, causing a stir among the romance reading community, labeled by some readers as too dark, argued by others as seductively rich, dark paranormal romance at its finest.

She loves to mingle real life history with fiction while blending genres. Her characters have lived in Colorado, The Grand Canyon, Alaska, traveled to the Salem Witch Trials, visited the Italian Renaissance, traveled to Hades and back, romanced in Palm Beach, Florida, London, Africa, and Montego Bay, Jamaica. They have suffered through the Texas Dust Bowl, The Great Depression, The Holocaust and lived through the last great Ice Age when sabre tooth tigers and woolly mammoths walked the earth.

Reviews

[Stacy Eaton · Rating 4 out of 5]

First off, the plot was great and I enjoyed it very much. It was very engaging and full of depth. The author did well taking you from start to finish over a period of months without making you feel like it was being dragged out.

I loved the characters. They had sincere personalities and emotions. I could see the characters in my mind as their lives evolved and changed.

I did find that in a couple of conversations the characters were having, I felt like they were dragging on a bit, and could have been completed quicker to keep the momentum going. Every conversation in the book was needed, but I felt sometimes there were to many words to fluff it up that just weren’t needed to get the point across.

There was quite a lot of action in the book, and I had wished that there was more to it. The action scenes went quickly without a lot of detail. If you are looking for a great romance without a ton of suspenseful action, this this is a great book for you.

Over all I really enjoyed the book, I look forward to reading more of Alisha’s Paige’s books.

[Scott-robert Shenkman · Rating 3 out of 5]

So, have you ever read a book, and you're loving it, and the story is fantastic, blah, blah, blah...and then one of the MCs does something just so completely wrong that you now hate said MC for the rest of the book, that said MC is unredeemable, and you therefore hate this MC and only read the rest of the book praying that the other MC won't be totally stupid and take them back?

Yeah. This book. And her name is Paige. I thoroughly hated her (can you tell?).

Please don't misunderstand me - this is a very well written book, with few grammatical errors as a bonus. Sean is a very likeable MC. And I did like Paige's family. But I couldn't help it - I just wound up detesting Paige.

However, the writing is good enough that I will read more of this author's work. I will hope, however, that I can like both MCs the next time around!

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good book. Would have rated it higher but I wasn't fond of the twist ending.

I have never been down into the basin of the Grand Canyon and now I think I would love to see some of the waterfalls that occur there.