The Bear's Forever Guest
(2026)(The fifth book in the Bearstone Lodge Fated Mates series)
A novel by Ciera Knox
She came to make magic for someone else. He decided it was her turn.
Aubrey
I make other people's love stories beautiful for a living.
The fairy lights. The playlists. The champagne towers and the sunset ceremonies and the moments where everyone cries and the bride says this is exactly what I dreamed. That's me, behind the curtain, making the dream real.
I've never been the one standing in the fairy lights.
Owen Calloway is charming and bright and exactly the kind of man I'd cast as Best Man at a wedding — all performance, zero substance.
Except when no one's watching, his smile disappears. And what's underneath is quieter and sadder and more honest than I prepared for.
Owen
I'm the fun one. The charming one. The brother with the jokes and the social media presence and the bright personality that makes everything look easy.
Four of my brothers have found their mates. I'm the last one standing, and everyone's watching, and I'm smiling so hard my face hurts.
Then she arrives — organized chaos, spectacular under pressure, making magic for everyone else while no one makes it for her — and she smells like everything I've been pretending I don't want.
She sees through my charm. Calls me on my performance. Asks who I am when the show's over. I don't know.
But standing in a clearing I built for her, fairy lights in her hair, I think the real Owen might be someone worth knowing after all.
Bearstone Lodge Book 5 is a cozy, high-heat bear shifter novelette featuring two fated mates who strip each other bare, a hero who discovers the real version of himself is the best one, and a heroine who finally stands in the fairy lights. The breathtaking conclusion to the Bearstone Lodge series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Aubrey
I make other people's love stories beautiful for a living.
The fairy lights. The playlists. The champagne towers and the sunset ceremonies and the moments where everyone cries and the bride says this is exactly what I dreamed. That's me, behind the curtain, making the dream real.
I've never been the one standing in the fairy lights.
Owen Calloway is charming and bright and exactly the kind of man I'd cast as Best Man at a wedding — all performance, zero substance.
Except when no one's watching, his smile disappears. And what's underneath is quieter and sadder and more honest than I prepared for.
Owen
I'm the fun one. The charming one. The brother with the jokes and the social media presence and the bright personality that makes everything look easy.
Four of my brothers have found their mates. I'm the last one standing, and everyone's watching, and I'm smiling so hard my face hurts.
Then she arrives — organized chaos, spectacular under pressure, making magic for everyone else while no one makes it for her — and she smells like everything I've been pretending I don't want.
She sees through my charm. Calls me on my performance. Asks who I am when the show's over. I don't know.
But standing in a clearing I built for her, fairy lights in her hair, I think the real Owen might be someone worth knowing after all.
Bearstone Lodge Book 5 is a cozy, high-heat bear shifter novelette featuring two fated mates who strip each other bare, a hero who discovers the real version of himself is the best one, and a heroine who finally stands in the fairy lights. The breathtaking conclusion to the Bearstone Lodge series.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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