Hooked on the Bear
(2026)(The seventh book in the Snowberry Ridge Shifters series)
A novel by Ella Tucker
She came to sell the lake. The bear had other plans.
Mia Bennett has been to four hundred towns and never once unpacked. A location scout paid to arrive, photograph, and vanish, she's built a whole life out of leaving first — so when a great-uncle she barely remembers leaves her a ramshackle place on Snowberry Lake, the plan is simple: sign the papers, list it, be gone in a week.
Except the dock she just inherited is the one Hudson Blackwood's entire livelihood runs off of — leased from her dead uncle on a fifteen-year handshake that died with him. Hudson is gruff, enormous, allergic to asking anyone for anything, and absolutely certain the city woman who fell into his lake is going to sell his world out from under him and drive away clean.
His bear has other ideas. It decided Mia was his before he even knew her name.
Now they're stuck fixing up a dead man's cabin together all summer — enemies with a leaking roof, a circling developer, and a pull between them that neither can outrun. But Mia keeps a bag packed for a reason, and Hudson carries everything alone for a reason, and the closer they get, the more likely they are to talk each other right into the exact heartbreak they're both running from.
Because the bear can't claim her. Not unless she asks. And a woman who's spent thirty years never staying anywhere has to decide whether the thing she's most afraid of — putting down roots deep enough to be gutted if she loses them — might just be the only home she's ever going to get.
Hooked on the Bear is a steamy, small-town shifter romance with a grumpy bear, a runaway heroine, a whole town of secrets, and a love worth staying for. Book 7 in the Snowberry Ridge series — each book can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Fantasy
Mia Bennett has been to four hundred towns and never once unpacked. A location scout paid to arrive, photograph, and vanish, she's built a whole life out of leaving first — so when a great-uncle she barely remembers leaves her a ramshackle place on Snowberry Lake, the plan is simple: sign the papers, list it, be gone in a week.
Except the dock she just inherited is the one Hudson Blackwood's entire livelihood runs off of — leased from her dead uncle on a fifteen-year handshake that died with him. Hudson is gruff, enormous, allergic to asking anyone for anything, and absolutely certain the city woman who fell into his lake is going to sell his world out from under him and drive away clean.
His bear has other ideas. It decided Mia was his before he even knew her name.
Now they're stuck fixing up a dead man's cabin together all summer — enemies with a leaking roof, a circling developer, and a pull between them that neither can outrun. But Mia keeps a bag packed for a reason, and Hudson carries everything alone for a reason, and the closer they get, the more likely they are to talk each other right into the exact heartbreak they're both running from.
Because the bear can't claim her. Not unless she asks. And a woman who's spent thirty years never staying anywhere has to decide whether the thing she's most afraid of — putting down roots deep enough to be gutted if she loses them — might just be the only home she's ever going to get.
Hooked on the Bear is a steamy, small-town shifter romance with a grumpy bear, a runaway heroine, a whole town of secrets, and a love worth staying for. Book 7 in the Snowberry Ridge series — each book can be read as a standalone.
Genre: Fantasy
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