Bears of Beauville

When my ex kicks me out of the car in the middle of nowhere, I’d rather freeze than wait for him to come back. I hike through the snowy forest, aiming for a tiny mountain town I know nothing about. I’m losing my strength when a guy on a four-wheeler finds me, wraps me in a parka, and brings me to his home. He’s huge and scary-looking, but the longer he lets me stay, the more I like him. Under his grumpy façade, Barclay Black is a teddy bear.

I’ve been in love with Theodore Frey for as long as I can remember. When I turned 18, I ignored the acceptance letter from the best college I’d applied to, as well as the facts that Frey was my dad’s best friend, the mayor of Beauville, the scariest bear shifter in the mountains, and 20 years older than me.

Laurel Riley, the newest and most newsworthy Beauville resident, has finally arrived. Except he wants nothing more than to be left alone... After nearly two years on tour, I’m desperate to vanish from the public eye. A quiet month in the secluded bear-shifter town of Beauville is my last...