As a ranger at the remote Peninsula National Park, Mira spends her days observing Kodiak bears, interacting with park visitors, and achieving low-level Internet fame as the face of Big Bear Week, the park’s annual competition to crown the fattest Kodiak. She’s famously great with the bears, even better with park visitors, and perfectly happy with her life in Sockeye, Alaska—as long Lauren Sorrell’s not around.
Mira’s closest neighbor is an arborist, a successful novelist, and unbearably hot in a way that tangles Mira’s smart tongue in knots. It’s such a problem in a town of three hundred people.
When a bear visits Mira’s porch late one night and leaves a gift, it raises questions she can’t answer that upset her comfortable routine. Worse, Lauren keeps showing up at inconvenient moments, and Mira’s favorite bear and closest confidante, Darling, isn’t acting like herself. With Big Bear Week in full swing, Mira finds herself questioning the world she thought she understood—and falling fast for a woman whose secrets threaten everything Mira believes she knows.
‘Something I didn’t know I needed in my life: a sapphic romance around Big Bear Week. This was a short and sweet novella that gave me warm fuzzies of contentment with a nice side of spice.’ —TJ, Goodreads review
‘Well-written and cute. Usually I’m not a big fan of shifter romance, but it feels almost incidental here, though not in a bad way — one of the things I don’t love about shifter romance is all the pack and hierarchy and stuff, and this book has none of that, just a woman who becomes a bear occasionally, as one does.’ —Amanda, Goodreads review
‘This was a really interesting novella. Read it for the bears and Alaska and a nice little romance, too.’ —Angie, Goodreads review
Bear with Me is a standalone novella with light shifter elements and no lore.
Content warnings: adult language; mystical/spiritual shifter storyline without explanatory lore; human-bear interaction with implied threat of bodily harm to human; cisgender white male coworker secondary character who has no excuse not to be farther along in his ally journey, but who makes progress via genuine respect for main character and listening to consistent callouts. This book could be for you if you like low-angst, low-conflict romance; focus on character triumphs and gifts; fluff/steam/relaxing and humorous read; bears, park rangers, & small-town Northern Exposure vibes; found family.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Mira’s closest neighbor is an arborist, a successful novelist, and unbearably hot in a way that tangles Mira’s smart tongue in knots. It’s such a problem in a town of three hundred people.
When a bear visits Mira’s porch late one night and leaves a gift, it raises questions she can’t answer that upset her comfortable routine. Worse, Lauren keeps showing up at inconvenient moments, and Mira’s favorite bear and closest confidante, Darling, isn’t acting like herself. With Big Bear Week in full swing, Mira finds herself questioning the world she thought she understood—and falling fast for a woman whose secrets threaten everything Mira believes she knows.
‘Something I didn’t know I needed in my life: a sapphic romance around Big Bear Week. This was a short and sweet novella that gave me warm fuzzies of contentment with a nice side of spice.’ —TJ, Goodreads review
‘Well-written and cute. Usually I’m not a big fan of shifter romance, but it feels almost incidental here, though not in a bad way — one of the things I don’t love about shifter romance is all the pack and hierarchy and stuff, and this book has none of that, just a woman who becomes a bear occasionally, as one does.’ —Amanda, Goodreads review
‘This was a really interesting novella. Read it for the bears and Alaska and a nice little romance, too.’ —Angie, Goodreads review
Bear with Me is a standalone novella with light shifter elements and no lore.
Content warnings: adult language; mystical/spiritual shifter storyline without explanatory lore; human-bear interaction with implied threat of bodily harm to human; cisgender white male coworker secondary character who has no excuse not to be farther along in his ally journey, but who makes progress via genuine respect for main character and listening to consistent callouts. This book could be for you if you like low-angst, low-conflict romance; focus on character triumphs and gifts; fluff/steam/relaxing and humorous read; bears, park rangers, & small-town Northern Exposure vibes; found family.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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