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WINTER

WINTER

Aaron Winterhas waited for nearly two decades to claim his mate and now he has his chance. He’s going to do everything he can to convince Celeste that she’s the only one for him… and his bear.

He’s had two dreams in his life: Turning Mystic Mountain Resort into a getaway for shape shifters and to have Celeste at his side. The town is excited as nearly all the residents are shifter themselves.

Celeste Olwinis at a turning point in her life. She raised her kids as a single mom, with Aaron as her friend and rock. She was already half in love with the man.

But Aaron has always kept his emotional distance from her and after all of this time he’s offering her a dream. There are still some questions she has about him, something she’s sure he’s hiding from her. She’s not sure if she can take that leap, because if he broke her heart now, she’d never survive.

Aaron knows he has to tell her who he really is if this is going to work between them, but to drag up old memories into the darkest night of her life may set her against him forever. Still, he can’t give up.

He’ll move a mountain to prove that he’ll protect her and love her like no one else could, because they were meant to be.

XAVIER

His freedom and his solitude was everything to him… until he met her.

Xavier Salazarlivesthe life that he wants. He has his friends and his home carved into Mystic Mountain.It’shis retreat, his refuge. Whena gorgeous woman shows up in town to help make the resort’s bar a brilliant success,he’storn.Xavier isdetermined to drive her away, but his panther wants to touch her all over,hide her away in theirden, and add to the family that he was slowly creating around himself.

Oh, he was going to fight his panther’s demands… hard. And yet, even he knew he was probably fighting a losing battle.

True Sinclair is at the top of her profession. Being a world class mixologist means she knows how toblendall kinds of things together.She justcan’tfathomwhy Xavier treats her like he’s oil and she’s water.There was no doubt that hewas combustible around her.

At first, hecan’tseem to force himself to be civil orevenmake an effort tosharethe same town, but she finds herself drawn to the dichotomy warring inside of him.

True knows what he is and she knows what she wants, but shewon’twait around forever if the man who makes herblind with love anddrunk with passionwon’t even meet her halfway.

LOCKE

Home is where the Heart is… She was his heart and he’d never let her go.

They say it’s the little things that make a house a home, but for Locke Ascher it was one single thing. His first breath of air in Mystic. It wasn’t just the fresh air of the quiet mountain town. It was the scent of shifters in the air. His whole life had been spent in a town composed solely of Lion shifters and that’s how it was going to stay.But,Locke wanted more.Moving to Mystic was just the start of hisnewlife.

KatherineLincoln was on her first grand adventure.She knew that moving to Mystic was going to be an eye-opening experience, but the man who came to give her the keys to her new shop wasdrop dead gorgeous.Sowhat if he could turn furry with fangs and his roar shook the windows, he says he belongs to her and she belongs to him. Heaven help her, but she’s willing to buy into the fantasy. Why not? What could she lose?

Well, when you’re ‘all in’ with something, you suddenly have everything to lose. And Locke’s pastcomesknocking on his door andthreatens everything they’ve found together.What steps are they willing to take to get what they both want? A Happy Ever After.

ASH

Ash Thomas is a bear who wants a mate, but no one...absolutely no one in Mystic Mountain awakens that part of his soul. He's worried that he'll be alone... forever.

Suzannah Miller is given a chance at a real home for the first time in her life. She heads to Mystic Mountain to find her way and picks up the interest of a stray along the way. Someone who doesn't understand the word 'No.'

In Mystic Mountain, she'll have the choice between the man and the bear...

Who do you think she'll choose?

Chapter

One

If someone had told her that she’d ever have a happy life, she would have laughed in their faces. The one thing she'd learned while she was growing up was that life was a drudge. Things happened and they weren't good. The best she could do was to work and work and work to keep her head above water. If she didn’t, she'd drown in the stagnant waters of everyday drudge.

What she didn't expect was a sudden ring of her apartment doorbell.

Suzannah hadn't even realized that her doorbell worked. No one... NO ONE... had ever used it.

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