A snow storm, a museum, a hot Alpha, oh my

One with the Wolf

One with the Wolf was almost never written.

It was my second year as a published author and several of us were putting together a free winter anthology to build our newsletter lists. I had published Unchained earlier that year and was working on book two and beginning to feel overwhelmed. I confided in another author who was also working on a story for the anthology that I was thinking about pulling out because I was running dry for ideas.

“You can’t,” she said. “You’ve got to do it.”

It wasn’t long afterward that I stumbled across a book I loved as a child, The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler, about two kids who run away to New York City and hide out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a place I personally adore. Suddenly, a spark appeared and I had an idea for our “snowed in” or “forced proximity” story where the two characters, at least for a bit, were stuck together, and the meeting of Gia and Jenson took flight when the lights go out in the museum amidst a snow storm in the city.

And then I fell in love and knew that although the anthology story needed to be short, I needed to continue Jenson and Gia’s story as a complete novel.

One with the Wolf is, so far, my most popular novel because I rediscovered a spark from my past, a book I loved, a place I love, and a story that will forever be part of me.