WEREWOLF IN ALASKA BY VICKI LEWIS THOMPSON shows that you cannot always help who you fall in with, no matter the species. Wilderness guide Jake Hunter and founder of WARM (Werewolf Against Random Mating), is a staunch believer that Weres should only mate and have sex with other Weres and never humans. Imagine his surprise when he is shopping in the local Polecat Alaska general store, and a wonderful almond scent reaches his nose. It is coming from a local wood carving artist and human, Rachel Miller. He knows that name because he was just looking at her carvings and asking the stores owner Ted about the artist. He has no idea why she is hiding in another aisle and won't talk to him about her art, but he figures she has a reason. The one piece that jumps out to him is a beautiful black wolf with vibrant green eyes and has a small white diamond design on his forehead. Jake's wolf looks almost identical to this wolf, but he knows this wolf is his father, who he lost along with his mother a few years back in an avalanche. He decides to purchase the piece and knows it will look wonderful on his mantel above his fireplace. Jake has no idea that he is the first person to purchase one of Rachel Miller's carvings giving her the courage to peruse carving as a full time career.

Fast forward three years later. Rachel is an internationally known and highly sought after wood carving artist, that has more work than she has time. But she still finds time at night to spy (with her binoculars), on her gorgeous neighbor across the lake, Jake, who likes to skinny dip nightly in the summer. Jake who still cannot forget Rachel, or her almond scent , likes to run in his wolf form after it is full dark. It is on one his runs that he smells a grizzly and knows that it is by Rachel's cabin. With any luck the grizzly would not have a cub with her and Rachel would be locked in her cabin, no such luck. He fights the grizzly and convinces mama that the women is not out to hurt her cub, but he is hurt in the process. He is to weak to make it back to his cabin and Rachel coxes him into her cabin to take care of him. For the next 24 hrs he is taken good care of and sets things in motion for the rest of the book. From Jake coming home from a business trip to San Francisco to find Rachel in his bed reading Duncan MacDowell's book on shifters, to him explaining shifters and their politics, to why Were's do not need condoms. The explaining of no condoms is hilarious, and leads to Jake logging into Sniffer and asking the condom question and the answers he gets back. After the answers come in, Rachel is satisfied and they head to Jakes bedroom and the huge bed. Jakes realizes that as soon as he has Rachel he will be a hypocrite. But he cannot help himself, he has dreamed of this for 3 long years. He convinces himself it is only sex and not a mating, that would totally wrong.

There is so much about Jakes and Rachel's story that you are going to like. There are times that I got a little sad, because Jake is so against the human/Were mating. But those are his beliefs and he wouldn't be Jake if he was any other way. But in the end everything seems to work out the way it should. If you are a fan of Ms. Thompson's, especially her Werewolf's this is a must read. I enjoyed WEREWOLF IN ALASKA immensely. I laughed, I cried and couldn't put it down.