The Bear's Tempting Guest
(2026)(The third book in the Bearstone Lodge Fated Mates series)
A novel by Ciera Knox
She came for a review. She stayed for the chef.
Claire
I’m a food critic who excels at keeping my distance. My job is to judge, not to feel, and certainly not to lose my heart to the man I’m supposed to be reviewing.
Mason Calloway’s kitchen was meant to be a single paragraph in my column. But when he hands me a dish made just for me, my professional objectivity crumbles.
Mason
I’m used to being the provider, the bear shifter who feeds everyone else but is never the priority. I’ve lived my life behind the apron, and I was content to stay there. Until Claire.
She doesn't just taste my food; she sees the man behind the heat. She’s the first person to ever truly feed me back.
In a kitchen full of heat, I'm about to show her the best things in life can’t be tasted—only devoured.
Bearstone Lodge Book 3 is a cozy, high-heat bear shifter novelette featuring a kitchen that becomes a love language, a hero who feeds everyone and has never been fed, and a heroine who discovers that the best things in life don't need a review.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Claire
I’m a food critic who excels at keeping my distance. My job is to judge, not to feel, and certainly not to lose my heart to the man I’m supposed to be reviewing.
Mason Calloway’s kitchen was meant to be a single paragraph in my column. But when he hands me a dish made just for me, my professional objectivity crumbles.
Mason
I’m used to being the provider, the bear shifter who feeds everyone else but is never the priority. I’ve lived my life behind the apron, and I was content to stay there. Until Claire.
She doesn't just taste my food; she sees the man behind the heat. She’s the first person to ever truly feed me back.
In a kitchen full of heat, I'm about to show her the best things in life can’t be tasted—only devoured.
Bearstone Lodge Book 3 is a cozy, high-heat bear shifter novelette featuring a kitchen that becomes a love language, a hero who feeds everyone and has never been fed, and a heroine who discovers that the best things in life don't need a review.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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