Cherished By The Gentle Bear Shifter
(2026)(A book in the Redwood Ridge Shifters series)
A novel by Demi Wilder
She's forgotten how to shift. I'm going to remind her she's magic.
My brothers patrol territory and pick fights and run timber crews. I make toys. Wooden trains, dollhouses, carved animals — things that last. Things you pass down. My bear isn't aggressive like my brothers'. He's gentle. Drawn to children and innocence and anything soft and good.
I shift while I carve. The bear makes the rough shapes with his claws. The man refines them with tools. It feels like magic because it is.
Then Cilla Thornton arrives to coordinate the Christmas market, and my bear scents what no one else has noticed — shifter. Female. Suppressed. Starving.
She's Aspen Hollow. She left at eighteen because she couldn't bear to watch her sleuth's magic die. She suppressed her bear for fifteen years. She thinks she's human now.
She isn't. She's home.
I start leaving her things on her porch. Carved animals. Elk meat wrapped in butcher paper. Small offerings from one bear to another, courting language she doesn't remember how to read.
She thinks I'm a strange neighbor.
I'm going to show her my bear. I'm going to wake hers. I'm going to remind her that some magic doesn't die — it just waits for someone to remember it.
And when her starving black bear finally claws to the surface for the first time in fifteen years, my grizzly is going to be there waiting. Not to claim her. Not yet.
Just to welcome her home.
Cherished by the Gentle Bear Shifter is a fated-mates bear shifter romance featuring a gentle toymaker grizzly, the suppressed black bear shifter who forgot what she was, and the Christmas season that proves magic is never really gone. Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
My brothers patrol territory and pick fights and run timber crews. I make toys. Wooden trains, dollhouses, carved animals — things that last. Things you pass down. My bear isn't aggressive like my brothers'. He's gentle. Drawn to children and innocence and anything soft and good.
I shift while I carve. The bear makes the rough shapes with his claws. The man refines them with tools. It feels like magic because it is.
Then Cilla Thornton arrives to coordinate the Christmas market, and my bear scents what no one else has noticed — shifter. Female. Suppressed. Starving.
She's Aspen Hollow. She left at eighteen because she couldn't bear to watch her sleuth's magic die. She suppressed her bear for fifteen years. She thinks she's human now.
She isn't. She's home.
I start leaving her things on her porch. Carved animals. Elk meat wrapped in butcher paper. Small offerings from one bear to another, courting language she doesn't remember how to read.
She thinks I'm a strange neighbor.
I'm going to show her my bear. I'm going to wake hers. I'm going to remind her that some magic doesn't die — it just waits for someone to remember it.
And when her starving black bear finally claws to the surface for the first time in fifteen years, my grizzly is going to be there waiting. Not to claim her. Not yet.
Just to welcome her home.
Cherished by the Gentle Bear Shifter is a fated-mates bear shifter romance featuring a gentle toymaker grizzly, the suppressed black bear shifter who forgot what she was, and the Christmas season that proves magic is never really gone. Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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