Guarded By The Alpha Bear Shifter
(2026)(A book in the Redwood Ridge Shifters series)
A Story by Demi Wilder
I am the Alpha of the Ridgewood Bears. I have not had a mate in five years. My bear has not lifted his head since I lost her. Until now.
Nina Rathbone arrived in Bear Creek Valley as a widow and a fugitive. The mate of the Crescent Sleuth's previous Alpha — a respected male who died in a border dispute that has never been satisfactorily explained. By Crescent law, his brother now has the right to claim her. She has eight weeks left.
She refuses.
She came to me because I'm the only Alpha in the region powerful enough to defy a Crescent claim. She came expecting sanctuary.
She didn't expect my bear to lift his head for the first time in five years and choose her.
Another. Ours. Now.
I buried my heart with my mate. I have grown children. I have a sleuth that has accepted I will never love again. And here, standing in my study with grief and steel in equal measure, is a queen who has spent twenty years being the strongest one in any room she enters — and who has finally come somewhere she might be allowed to set the weight down.
I'm going to mark her. I'm going to claim her. I'm going to reveal what I am and ask her to choose me with the full knowledge of the cost — including the war the Crescents have been preparing for, which is about to land on Bear Creek's doorstep.
The new Crescent Alpha is coming for her in person. He thinks he's claiming a widow.
He's about to find out what a hundred and forty years of secrets looks like when the Alpha of the Ridgewood Bears bares his teeth.
Guarded by the Alpha Bear Shifter is a later-in-life fated-mates bear shifter romance featuring the silver-tipped Alpha of the Ridgewood Bears, the Crescent widow who refuses to be claimed by anyone but him, and the cross-sleuth war the valley has been preparing for. Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Nina Rathbone arrived in Bear Creek Valley as a widow and a fugitive. The mate of the Crescent Sleuth's previous Alpha — a respected male who died in a border dispute that has never been satisfactorily explained. By Crescent law, his brother now has the right to claim her. She has eight weeks left.
She refuses.
She came to me because I'm the only Alpha in the region powerful enough to defy a Crescent claim. She came expecting sanctuary.
She didn't expect my bear to lift his head for the first time in five years and choose her.
Another. Ours. Now.
I buried my heart with my mate. I have grown children. I have a sleuth that has accepted I will never love again. And here, standing in my study with grief and steel in equal measure, is a queen who has spent twenty years being the strongest one in any room she enters — and who has finally come somewhere she might be allowed to set the weight down.
I'm going to mark her. I'm going to claim her. I'm going to reveal what I am and ask her to choose me with the full knowledge of the cost — including the war the Crescents have been preparing for, which is about to land on Bear Creek's doorstep.
The new Crescent Alpha is coming for her in person. He thinks he's claiming a widow.
He's about to find out what a hundred and forty years of secrets looks like when the Alpha of the Ridgewood Bears bares his teeth.
Guarded by the Alpha Bear Shifter is a later-in-life fated-mates bear shifter romance featuring the silver-tipped Alpha of the Ridgewood Bears, the Crescent widow who refuses to be claimed by anyone but him, and the cross-sleuth war the valley has been preparing for. Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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