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Alice Gaines likes her fiction hot, hot, hot.
Alice has a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She shares a house in Oakland California with her pet corn snake and a stray cat that lives in her yard.
When Alice isnât making up stories in her head, she spends her time cooking, gardening, and listening to her favorite band, Tower of Power.