Book Title: STORM WARNING
Character Name: Alex Carter
How would you describe your family or your childhood?
I had an unusual childhood. My mother was a pilot in the Air Force, and so we lived in many different places as I was growing up. She liked to play survival games with me, wanting to prepare me for any kind of situation. Sometimes she’d drop me off in the woods and I’d have to navigate back home alone. She taught me resourcefulness, how to use anything at hand as a tool or a weapon. She was tough, but creative and loving. I lost her when I was 12, when her plane went down during a mission. I was devastated. My father is a landscape painter and is one of my best friends. He’s jovial and curious about life. Whenever we moved to a new airbase, he’d get a stack of field guides, and we’d go out and learn all the local flora and fauna.
What was your greatest talent?
My resourcefulness has come in handy on myriad occasions. I can fix machines and improvise solutions to complex situations. I’ve had to fight and think my way out of some seriously dangerous circumstances.
Significant other?
No. I travel a lot for my work, and it’s proven difficult to develop romantic relationships because of that. Many times, I’m out in the remote wilderness carrying out solo research projects. But lately, this helicopter pilot I worked with out on the Arctic ice has piqued my interest…
Biggest challenge in relationships?
The amount of time I spend out in the field means I’m seldom in one place for very long. In recent years I’ve been posted in a remote location in Montana, in the Canadian Arctic, in the interior rainforest of Washington State, in the rugged wilds of New Mexico, and most recently on a remote beach on the Big Island of Hawaii.
Where do you live?
I basically live out of my backpack. I don’t have a home base. At one time, I had an apartment in Boston with a boyfriend, but that relationship didn’t work out, and I’ve been on the move since then. But during my downtime, I often stay with my father in his 1906 Craftsman house in Berkeley, or in L.A. with my best friend Zoe Lindquist, who is a successful actor.
Do you have any enemies?
So many enemies. I’ve gone up against poachers, polluters, greedy CEOs, mercenaries, wildlife traffickers, anti-immigrant vigilantes, and even a serial killer.
How do you feel about the place where you are now? Is there something you are particularly attached to, or particularly repelled by, in this place?
Working on this beach in Hawaii has been heavenly. I love the quiet of the tropical nights as I look after the turtle nests, and I enjoy falling asleep in my tent to the sound of the surf. Working in this island setting after spending time in places like the Arctic and the New Mexico desert has been a wonderful contrast.
Do you have children, pets, both, or neither?
I have neither.
What do you do for a living?
I’m a freelance wildlife biologist, who does work for a variety of nonprofits and land trusts.
Greatest disappointment?
The harm I see inflicted on habitats and wildlife.
Greatest source of joy?
Being out in the wild, especially in protected habitats, with the wind sighing in the trees and looking out on open expanses of stunning scenery.
What do you do to entertain yourself or have fun?
I play the oboe and enjoy visiting my best friend Zoe to dance in L.A. nightclubs.
What is your greatest personal failing, in your view?
I regret that I can’t do more to help imperiled species. We have a great task ahead of us to preserve dwindling biodiversity and bring species back from the brink.
What keeps you awake at night?
Worrying that the species I’m trying to protect will continue to decline.
What is the most pressing problem you have at the moment?
Right now, it’s making sure that no predators or poachers get to the turtle eggs I’m watching over.
Is there something that you need or want that you don’t have? For yourself or for someone important to you?
There are times I long for romance and connection. I can feel isolated when out in the field for long periods of time.
Why don’t you have it? What is in the way?
Basically, my life’s passion and goals are in the way. It’s hard to maintain solid contact with people when you’re always on the move. But I wouldn’t trade what I do for anything.
STORM WARNING by Alice Henderson
Alex Carter #5
A Novel of Suspense
Wildlife biologist Alex Carter jumps at the chance to work with hawksbill turtles in Hawaii, only to face an unthinkable threat that endangers countless lives in the captivating latest entry of the acclaimed series by Alice Henderson.
Alex Carter is thrilled to be in lush, tropical Hawaii for her new assignment: to study and protect hawksbill turtles. From global warming to poaching to the simple fragility of a turtle’s nest, these creatures are under constant threat. And as excited as Alex is to swim, explore, and relax, she’s also ready to be these turtles’ fiercest protector.
Alex looks forward to a break from the danger of her past assignments, but soon finds that environmental crime can happen anywhere, even in a Hawaiian paradise. As a massive hurricane approaches, armed thieves storm onto the beach where Alex and her volunteers are desperately trying to move turtle eggs to safety out of the storm surge.
When the gunmen take one of her volunteers hostage and Alex tracks them to a nearby paleontology museum, Alex suspects that there’s more to these mysterious criminals than meets the eye and that the repercussions of their success will extend far beyond the shores of the Big Island. Whatever their treacherous plot may be, Alex must scramble to protect the turtles, her friends, and the world at large… before irreversible damage is done.
Women’s Fiction | Fiction Adventure | Mystery [ HarperCollins, On Sale: March 24, 2026, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9780063371859 / eISBN: 9780063371873 ]
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About Alice Henderson
Alice Henderson’s love of wild places inspired her new thriller series, which begins with A Solitude of Wolverines, as well as her novel Voracious, which takes place in Glacier National Park.
Alice is a dedicated wildlife researcher. Using a variety of methods including bioacoustic studies, she undertakes wildlife surveys to determine what species are present on lands that have been set aside for conservation. There she ensures there are no signs of poaching and devises ways to improve habitat. Using geographic information systems (GIS), she also designs wildlife corridors and builds habitat suitability models and species distribution models. She has surveyed for the presence of grizzlies, wolves, spotted owls, wolverines, jaguars, endangered bats, and more.
She has also written media tie-in novels, including official novels for the TV shows Supernatural and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While working at LucasArts, she wrote material for several Star Wars video games.
She was selected to attend Launchpad, a NASA-funded writing workshop aimed at bringing accurate science to fiction. She holds an interdisciplinary master’s degree.
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