Honeypine Bears, Book 1
Iron and Honey
Her bear chose him on the first morning. Bryn Halvorsen said no.
Her bear chose him on the first morning. Bryn Halvorsen said no.
In Montana's Alder Creek valley, the Halvorsens of Honeypine Ranch keep good fences and a secret held for four generations: they are grizzly shifters. Eldest daughter Bryn runs the cattle, answers to no one, and means to refuse the mate her bear picked. A refused bond can sicken a bear. A forced one would cost Bryn herself. Her rule is simple: instinct is pressure, never permission. Every step gets chosen, by both of them, in words.
Rhett Calloway came to shoe horses. The itinerant farrier, an ex bronc rider who lost his family's ranch and learned to leave before anywhere could ask him to stay, plans to finish the string and roll on.
Instead he finds drought coming, a neighbor with designs on Halvorsen water and land, and a woman who says stay away while everything in her reaches for him.
This is a slow burn, and it earns its fire: a long season of wanting before the heat arrives in scorching measure.
Will Bryn trust a man who has never stayed anywhere to choose her freely, out loud, before her bear runs out of time?