She crossed the country on a postcard. He came down off a mountain on a feeling. The town that called them both was running out of time.
Hannah Ashford has been alone since her mother died. A librarian in Portland with a quiet apartment, steady work, and nobody across the table at night, she's made her peace with a small life — until a postcard from a grandmother she barely remembers turns up in her mail and tugs at something under her ribs she has no word for.
Welcome to Bear Haven: A Place for New Beginnings.
She drives four days to find out why.
Silas Stone hasn't been home in fourteen years. He left at eighteen, served eleven years overseas, and has spent the years since in a one-room apartment in Bozeman trying to become a man who could be trusted with his own bear again. He doesn't call his brother. He doesn't open the pouch his grandmother pressed into his hand the summer before he shipped out. He doesn't, in any of those years, let himself think about going back.
Then his bear stands up in his kitchen and won't sit down.
Bear Haven has called him too.
When Silas comes down off the highway and walks into Sarah's café, the woman in the corner booth is a stranger he has never seen — and his bear, for the first time in his life, lays itself flat at her feet. She is the granddaughter of a founding family. The first Ashford to set foot in the valley in almost a century. The piece the town has been missing.
And the bond the senior bears of Bear Haven have been holding by hand for two decades is settling with every hour she stays.
But Hannah's bear has been asleep her entire life, and the work the valley needs from her is the kind of work no one else can do. The outcast has come home to find that home was never the question — and the woman the town brought him is the answer to one he hasn't, in fourteen years, let himself ask.
The circle Bear Haven has been waiting to close is finally in the valley.
Now two people the world set apart have to close it.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Hannah Ashford has been alone since her mother died. A librarian in Portland with a quiet apartment, steady work, and nobody across the table at night, she's made her peace with a small life — until a postcard from a grandmother she barely remembers turns up in her mail and tugs at something under her ribs she has no word for.
Welcome to Bear Haven: A Place for New Beginnings.
She drives four days to find out why.
Silas Stone hasn't been home in fourteen years. He left at eighteen, served eleven years overseas, and has spent the years since in a one-room apartment in Bozeman trying to become a man who could be trusted with his own bear again. He doesn't call his brother. He doesn't open the pouch his grandmother pressed into his hand the summer before he shipped out. He doesn't, in any of those years, let himself think about going back.
Then his bear stands up in his kitchen and won't sit down.
Bear Haven has called him too.
When Silas comes down off the highway and walks into Sarah's café, the woman in the corner booth is a stranger he has never seen — and his bear, for the first time in his life, lays itself flat at her feet. She is the granddaughter of a founding family. The first Ashford to set foot in the valley in almost a century. The piece the town has been missing.
And the bond the senior bears of Bear Haven have been holding by hand for two decades is settling with every hour she stays.
But Hannah's bear has been asleep her entire life, and the work the valley needs from her is the kind of work no one else can do. The outcast has come home to find that home was never the question — and the woman the town brought him is the answer to one he hasn't, in fourteen years, let himself ask.
The circle Bear Haven has been waiting to close is finally in the valley.
Now two people the world set apart have to close it.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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