Tamed By The Grumpy Bear Shifter
(2026)(A book in the Redwood Ridge Shifters series)
A Story by Demi Wilder
She's covered in glitter. Her bear is delighted by mine. I am furious about all of it.
I shifted last year. Last year. At thirty. After watching every single one of my brothers shift in their twenties while I stayed stuck, half-formed, wondering if I was broken.
I'm still figuring out control. Still learning what this body can do. Still grumpy about being the last Redwood to grow into his fur.
Then Aspen Hollow sends me a student.
Joy Nakamura is thirty-four and just shifted six months ago. Her sleuth thought I'd be the perfect mentor because I remember what late-shift confusion feels like. Her sleuth is, I am increasingly convinced, lying.
Joy is sunshine in human form. Kindergarten teacher. Covered in actual glitter. Relentlessly cheerful. And her tiny black bear took one look at my surly young grizzly and decided he was the best thing she'd ever seen.
My bear, who has been miserable and uncontrolled for a year, settles the moment hers walks into a room.
I hate that she's the answer. I hate that her cheerfulness annoys me less every day. I hate that her scent makes me want to bury my face in her hair and apologize for every grumpy thing I've ever done.
I especially hate that the Aspen Hollow elders absolutely sent her here to mate me, and they were absolutely right about it.
She's going to teach me that being late doesn't mean being broken. She's going to teach me that her sunshine is hiding her own darkness, and her bear chose mine because we are the same kind of misfit.
And by the end of summer, she's going to be mine — even if it kills my pride to admit her bear was right from the start.
Tamed by the Grumpy Bear Shifter is a grumpy-sunshine fated-mates bear shifter romance featuring the youngest Redwood (finally shifted and still cranky about it), the late-blooming sunshine sent to mentor him, and two young bears who knew what their humans were too stubborn to see. Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
I shifted last year. Last year. At thirty. After watching every single one of my brothers shift in their twenties while I stayed stuck, half-formed, wondering if I was broken.
I'm still figuring out control. Still learning what this body can do. Still grumpy about being the last Redwood to grow into his fur.
Then Aspen Hollow sends me a student.
Joy Nakamura is thirty-four and just shifted six months ago. Her sleuth thought I'd be the perfect mentor because I remember what late-shift confusion feels like. Her sleuth is, I am increasingly convinced, lying.
Joy is sunshine in human form. Kindergarten teacher. Covered in actual glitter. Relentlessly cheerful. And her tiny black bear took one look at my surly young grizzly and decided he was the best thing she'd ever seen.
My bear, who has been miserable and uncontrolled for a year, settles the moment hers walks into a room.
I hate that she's the answer. I hate that her cheerfulness annoys me less every day. I hate that her scent makes me want to bury my face in her hair and apologize for every grumpy thing I've ever done.
I especially hate that the Aspen Hollow elders absolutely sent her here to mate me, and they were absolutely right about it.
She's going to teach me that being late doesn't mean being broken. She's going to teach me that her sunshine is hiding her own darkness, and her bear chose mine because we are the same kind of misfit.
And by the end of summer, she's going to be mine — even if it kills my pride to admit her bear was right from the start.
Tamed by the Grumpy Bear Shifter is a grumpy-sunshine fated-mates bear shifter romance featuring the youngest Redwood (finally shifted and still cranky about it), the late-blooming sunshine sent to mentor him, and two young bears who knew what their humans were too stubborn to see. Guaranteed HEA. No cheating. No cliffhangers.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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