Bargaining with the Bear
(2026)(The seventh book in the Kinky Kritters: Las Vegas series)
A novel by A J Marcus and Caitlin Ricci
Clyce doesn't do dates. Ever.
The best escort in Las Vegas has rules, and they've kept him whole: clients stay clients, the heart stays off the menu, and nobody, no matter how sweet, gets to know where he lives. Then he's handed to a quiet bear as a birthday gift, and the birthday boy does the one thing no client has ever done. He offers Clyce a way out instead of taking what he paid for.
Jamison has spent twenty years fixing other people's sentences and going home alone to an apartment that's too quiet. He knows exactly what he bought: one perfect evening with a professional. He knows the warmth isn't real. He books a dinner anyway, and when Clyce calls him back and haggles a concert ticket into the deal, he starts to suspect the man on the other end of the line is enjoying himself for free.
One bargain at a time, Clyce's rules start falling. A date he swears isn't a date. A morning he doesn't slip out of. An address no client has ever had. But loving a man whose body is his business means the night will come when Clyce walks through the door marked by another man's hands, and every man before Jamison has walked out that same door. Clyce knows how this ends.
He's about to find out what happens when a bear decides to stay.
Bargaining with the Bear is book seven in the Kinky Kritters: Las Vegas series of MM paranormal romances. Expect a snake with walls a mile high, a bear with endless patience, found family, scorching heat, and a hard-won happily ever after with no cliffhangers. Each book stands alone.
The best escort in Las Vegas has rules, and they've kept him whole: clients stay clients, the heart stays off the menu, and nobody, no matter how sweet, gets to know where he lives. Then he's handed to a quiet bear as a birthday gift, and the birthday boy does the one thing no client has ever done. He offers Clyce a way out instead of taking what he paid for.
Jamison has spent twenty years fixing other people's sentences and going home alone to an apartment that's too quiet. He knows exactly what he bought: one perfect evening with a professional. He knows the warmth isn't real. He books a dinner anyway, and when Clyce calls him back and haggles a concert ticket into the deal, he starts to suspect the man on the other end of the line is enjoying himself for free.
One bargain at a time, Clyce's rules start falling. A date he swears isn't a date. A morning he doesn't slip out of. An address no client has ever had. But loving a man whose body is his business means the night will come when Clyce walks through the door marked by another man's hands, and every man before Jamison has walked out that same door. Clyce knows how this ends.
He's about to find out what happens when a bear decides to stay.
Bargaining with the Bear is book seven in the Kinky Kritters: Las Vegas series of MM paranormal romances. Expect a snake with walls a mile high, a bear with endless patience, found family, scorching heat, and a hard-won happily ever after with no cliffhangers. Each book stands alone.
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