“Historical romance, pioneering feminism, rough sex, Inuit spirit guides, wolves, dogs, more wolves, real people mingling with fictional ones, a fresh take on the Dawson City gold rush—this is entertainment. An indomitable heroine takes city wolves into the wilderness and makes them howl. I for one could not stop listening.”

KEN McGOOGAN, Pierre Berton History Prize winner, author of Fatal Passage and Race to the Polar Sea

“Over time, our instinctual, embodied way of knowing has been banished, rupturing our intuitive connection with nature. Now Dorris Heffron, in her insightful exploration of the profound and mysterious relationship between a woman and her wolf-dogs, offers us a metaphor for healing the terrible breach. In this larger than life novel, power/love, greed/sharing, vengeance/mercy are among the archetypal tensions spurring the plot along and the reader with it, as the author draws us irresistibly into a world where connecting with our fellow creatures means the difference between life and death. A marvelous work! I look forward to it becoming a Canadian classic.”

ROSEMARY GOSSELIN, BJ, MSW, NCPsyA, Jungian Psychoanalyst, Integrative Consulting Services

“Dorris Heffron has illuminated a fascinating and little-known aspect of human behaviour—the degree to which humans have modelled their social structure on that of wolves—and turned it into story. City Wolves is a wonderful blend of fiction and history, natural and unnatural: high art indeed!”

WAYNE GRADY, Naturalist, author of The Nature of Coyotes

“City Wolves takes the insightful truth of good biography and runs with it, imaginatively rollicking into a gripping narrative. Dorris Heffron’s meticulous research allows her to give life to a neglected theory about who really first discovered the gold that started the Klondike rush and to compelling portrayals of historical characters like Kate Carmack, Belinda Mulroney and their cohorts in Dawson City. This novel celebrates and breathes real life into the women of the gold rush, opening up a new vista in historical fiction.”

JENNIFER DUNCAN, writer, educator, author of Sanctuary and Other Stories and Frontier Spirit, biographies of women who went to the Klondike gold rush