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Firefighter grizzly shifter Ryker Mitchell is restless. He wants to leave Estes Park for bigger opportunities, more excitement, and zero bad memories. His past taints his childhood home and he's ready to stop fighting old demons.But it's getting harder to ignore his feelings for the woman he helped rescue from a kidnapping. Olive Kent won't get out of his head, and if he can't ditch his attraction to her, he might never leave.Olive loves Estes Park and the boutique she manages. After years of uncertainty, she finally has a permanent place to call home. Things are great, except for daily harassing text messages, and her ridiculous crush on Ryker Mitchell.He's a pro at ignoring her until a pancake-eating contest and one little bet brings them together. When the city is plagued with arson, and a threat from Olive's past appears, Ryker has to choose to stay and protect the ones he loves or walk away from his past.He's comfortable with the decision he makes… until Olive goes into heat…This is the 5th and final book in the Estes Park Shifters series. It features a stubborn bear shifter hero and resilient heroine who can't keep their hands off each other. Low angst, lots of chuckles, and an HEA are guarenteed!

She's on the run. He's her reluctant protector. Will there be a second chance for the alpha bear shifter mountain man? Or will he lose it all… again? One minute Cara Neal is celebrating her win as Kansas City's Entrepreneur of the Year by maybe drinking too much and finding the wrong guy… the next, she's carrying a secret and every male bear shifter in three states is after her. She's on the run, forced to leave her thriving jewelry business behind for the wild Colorado mountains. She has no choice but to accept help from the alpha mountain man grizzly shifter who offers protection, free of charge. He's sexy. Tormented. Maybe a little gruff. But any man who sings to his hives of honeybees can't be that intimidating, right? Until he turns those dark, hungry eyes on her, and Cara knows she's going to have to repay his kindness. And… probably not with one of her award-winning necklaces. Jett Mitchell had a family once. They're gone, and so is his tolerance for anyone outside his mountain. He's content living alone on his organic farm, raising honeybees. When the sexy little human shows up with her surprise baby bump, his protective instincts go into overdrive. He should turn her away. He shouldn't want to keep her safely tucked away in his mountain home. Or watch her belly grow. Or long for things he can never have again. Bear shifters don't get a second chance fated mate. He can't keep her… But he'll be her bear shifter protector until it's time to let her go.And heaven help any other male who gets in his way.

She thinks all shifters are trouble. He's about to prove her right.When drunk raccoons trash Allie Rowe's bakery, the last thing she wants is help from a bear shifter. Especially one as devastatingly handsome as Dax Mitchell. She's learned the hard way that getting involved with shifters only leads to heartbreak.Dax doesn't have time for a reluctant mate. With his father dying and ancient shifter law breathing down his neck, he needs to claim his destined woman—fast. But convincing the stubborn baker to give him a chance proves harder than renovating her destroyed shop.When danger stalks them both, Allie must decide: trust the shifter who makes her body burn, or face their enemies alone.BEAR IN A BAKERY is a steamy, humorous, heart-felt small town bear shifter romance.

She needs an enticing story to keep her job. He needs a fake girlfriend to get his family off his back.Fox Mitchell has made a name for himself teaching high-octane survival classes to city slickers looking for adventure when he's not busy as acting captain of the Estes Park Search and Rescue Squad. He's happy being a loner, even if everyone around him is getting hitched.No one is going to domesticate and neuter him, thanks.Especially not the irritating woman who tries to rope him into an interview for some magazine he's never heard of. He's about to send her packing when his family reminds him he needs a date for a wedding and they're not about to back off until he gets one.Lulu Orlando has a lot to prove to her boss. As the only female reporter on staff for a prestigious men's magazine, she uses a contact in Estes Park to find Fox Mitchell, the sought-after survival expert no one has been able to coax into an interview. Her ex is after her job, and if she doesn't land this gig, she's screwed.She has no choice but to agree when Fox proposes a deal: be his fake girlfriend for a weekend and successfully complete his most challenging survival course, and she can have the interview.Except nature is too messy. She hates dirt, bugs and camping.Ditching her designer heels for hiking boots, she doesn't realize she's trekking head-first into danger, and strength she didn't know she had. Fox gets more than he bargains for but everything his inner grizzly bear craves, as he's forced to let go of what he thought he wanted…To save the one thing he can't live without.WILD IN THE WOODS is book four in the Estes Park Shifters series. Each book in the series features a hot grizzly shifter and the woman who tames them, and can be read as a standalone.

He's a mature, grumpy, battle-scarred alien lumberjack who swore he'd never take a mate. She's a stubborn, cheerful human with a limp, a sketchbook, and a deadline.Methic spends his days guarding the sacred autumn forest of Asemsa. He rarely comes to the colony, especially during mating season when the other Majaki warriors like him compete for wives. But when a curvy little human sneaks into his woods at night, he discovers the thought of someone else claiming her has him sharpening the blade of his axe.Jeneva knows she's about to be cast out of the colony for being "e;useless"e; after her accident as soon as the fall festival is over. But when she meets a towering alien who tastes like pumpkin spice when he kisses her, useless is the last thing she feels.She just wanted to sketch the glowing trees but he's about to show her how it feels to be thoroughly devoured like a pumpkin pie.

He's a proud, battle-hardened, silver-fox Majaki warrior who can finally retire and take a mate of his own.Darex spent his youth protecting his people by fighting in more wars than he can count. He's retired to Asemsa, the planet where mature Majaki fighters live the rest of their lives in peace... and claim mates.He can't claim the red haired Earth scientist unless he agrees to her deal. She needs him to be Santa Claus. He will say, "e;ho, ho, ho"e; and hand out gifts to the humans if it makes her happy.And when it's comes time to give her a gift, he'll show her what it means to be really satisfied.