He's been the anchor for everyone else. He didn't know he needed one.
Cole Hunter has been running the southern section of the Smoky Mountains since he was sixteen. He knows every trail, every drainage, every animal that moves through it — including the peregrine pair that has nested on the south cliff every spring for as long as he has been paying attention. When survey stakes appear in the hemlock corridor in October, he knows exactly what they mean. He's been watching the southern parcels for two years, waiting for this. What he hasn't been watching for is an oral historian who shows up at Patsy's Diner with four months of kitchen table interviews, three generations of family memory, and the other half of his record.
Laurel Whitaker came to Townsend for six weeks. It is now November. She has spent four months in the kitchens of the families who farmed the southern valley before it was taken from them — collecting the stories they kept because they believed someone would need them someday. When she finds a permit application buried in the county deed records, she realizes she has been building the evidence without knowing what it was evidence of. The ranger who knows the land is the missing piece. She leaves a message.
He takes eleven days to call her back. When he does, everything she has connects to everything he has.
The valley needs both of them. So do they.
Wild Heart is a slow-burn, sweet-with-heat bear shifter romance set in the patient, particular beauty of the Smoky Mountains. It's a story of two people who have each been keeping the same record from different directions — and a love that turns out to be the most important thing either of them has ever documented. The final book in the Smoky Mountain Bears series, and worth every page of the wait. Perfect for a long evening with something warm in your hands, the mountains somewhere outside your window, and one last story left to read.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Cole Hunter has been running the southern section of the Smoky Mountains since he was sixteen. He knows every trail, every drainage, every animal that moves through it — including the peregrine pair that has nested on the south cliff every spring for as long as he has been paying attention. When survey stakes appear in the hemlock corridor in October, he knows exactly what they mean. He's been watching the southern parcels for two years, waiting for this. What he hasn't been watching for is an oral historian who shows up at Patsy's Diner with four months of kitchen table interviews, three generations of family memory, and the other half of his record.
Laurel Whitaker came to Townsend for six weeks. It is now November. She has spent four months in the kitchens of the families who farmed the southern valley before it was taken from them — collecting the stories they kept because they believed someone would need them someday. When she finds a permit application buried in the county deed records, she realizes she has been building the evidence without knowing what it was evidence of. The ranger who knows the land is the missing piece. She leaves a message.
He takes eleven days to call her back. When he does, everything she has connects to everything he has.
The valley needs both of them. So do they.
Wild Heart is a slow-burn, sweet-with-heat bear shifter romance set in the patient, particular beauty of the Smoky Mountains. It's a story of two people who have each been keeping the same record from different directions — and a love that turns out to be the most important thing either of them has ever documented. The final book in the Smoky Mountain Bears series, and worth every page of the wait. Perfect for a long evening with something warm in your hands, the mountains somewhere outside your window, and one last story left to read.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
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