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Imprinted: Novella
When two worlds collide... can they resist temptation? Willow Grayson is looking for a new start. Gavin Lorimar just wants to be left alone. When their worlds collide, they get more than either of them bargained for.
56 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 3, 2019
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Melanie P. Smith
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Melanie P. Smith went to Dixie Collage and the University of Phoenix where she received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management. She also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution and Negotiation from the University of Utah. She worked for the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office for over 26 years, most of that time was in the Special Operations Division. She was part of the support staff for the SWAT team which required her to respond on call-outs where she manned the radio in the SWAT command post and coordinating communication and logistics. She was also on the logistics team of the Child Abduction Response Team. In addition, she worked closely with Search & Rescue, the Mounted Posse, K9 and the Motor Unit.
She has been able to utilize her knowledge of police and rescue operations as well as business practices to make her novels fun and exciting.
For years she used her creative writing skills for office related tasks such as awards programs and web content. Then one day, she decided it was time to start writing for fun again. Hopefully you will enjoy reading about this exciting new world as much as Melanie enjoyed writing about it.
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May 18, 2019
Mine!
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In "Imprinted: Novella (Lorimar Shifter Book 1)" by Melanie P. Smith, Willow is finally where she wants to be. Despite that, initially neither she nor Gavin, who is still in mourning for the mate he lost, realize that destiny doesn't ask permission before imposing its will. Three years have past since he came back to Utah, but Gavin has not moved on. Then, he meets Willow. On that first meeting, when they run together, each in their wolf form, Gavin claims her, but then drops her just as abruptly.
In this initial book in the Lorimar Shifter series, we are introduced not only to Willow, but also to Gavin, his pack leader Micah and other members of his pack. To Willow, though she knew why they were not affiliated with a pack, because her family had not told her the ancient folklore of those who were lycanthrope, the tales Gavin tells are new and, in some ways, unbelievable.
"Imprinted" is not the story, but an introduction to the story that is to come. Things are changing, not only for Gavin and Willow, but also for Gavin's pack as their peaceful valley is invaded by another pack.
This book was a good start for what promises to be an entertaining series. It builds the world that Willow and Gavin live in, introduces us to those I'm assuming will be the main characters in the series as it progresses, and establishes the rules these lycanthrope live by. These lycanthropes are not the werewolves of those campy movies of the 20th century, where whichever human so cursed had no self-control and could barely, if even that, remember the havoc they had wrought when changed, but closer to the primary lycanthrope character in "Grimm" (NBC, 2011-2017), where Monroe not only knew what he was doing in both his human and werewolf form, but also remembered afterwards. Like Monroe, Melanie's characters display an underlying humanity when in their wolf form, while having to battle a streak of instinctual primal ferocity that at times afflicts them in their human form.
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In "Imprinted: Novella (Lorimar Shifter Book 1)" by Melanie P. Smith, Willow is finally where she wants to be. Despite that, initially neither she nor Gavin, who is still in mourning for the mate he lost, realize that destiny doesn't ask permission before imposing its will. Three years have past since he came back to Utah, but Gavin has not moved on. Then, he meets Willow. On that first meeting, when they run together, each in their wolf form, Gavin claims her, but then drops her just as abruptly.
In this initial book in the Lorimar Shifter series, we are introduced not only to Willow, but also to Gavin, his pack leader Micah and other members of his pack. To Willow, though she knew why they were not affiliated with a pack, because her family had not told her the ancient folklore of those who were lycanthrope, the tales Gavin tells are new and, in some ways, unbelievable.
"Imprinted" is not the story, but an introduction to the story that is to come. Things are changing, not only for Gavin and Willow, but also for Gavin's pack as their peaceful valley is invaded by another pack.
This book was a good start for what promises to be an entertaining series. It builds the world that Willow and Gavin live in, introduces us to those I'm assuming will be the main characters in the series as it progresses, and establishes the rules these lycanthrope live by. These lycanthropes are not the werewolves of those campy movies of the 20th century, where whichever human so cursed had no self-control and could barely, if even that, remember the havoc they had wrought when changed, but closer to the primary lycanthrope character in "Grimm" (NBC, 2011-2017), where Monroe not only knew what he was doing in both his human and werewolf form, but also remembered afterwards. Like Monroe, Melanie's characters display an underlying humanity when in their wolf form, while having to battle a streak of instinctual primal ferocity that at times afflicts them in their human form.
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