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Honeypine Bears, Book 3
Smoke and Honey
Her bear chose the stranger at the roadblock. Sanna Halvorsen has not chosen anything. Yet.
Her bear chose the stranger at the roadblock. Sanna Halvorsen has not chosen anything. Yet.
Sanna is the loudest of the Halvorsen daughters of Honeypine Ranch, a horse trainer with a laugh the whole valley can hear and a young filly, Fennel, finally ready to carry a rider. The family keeps good fences and a secret held for four generations: they are grizzly shifters. This summer, the valley is burning. A lightning fire is eating the ridge, the ranch is taking in every horse the smoke pushes down, and Sanna's quiet summer has become a season of holding gates against the worst day the valley has ever handed her family.
Wade Kitteridge arrived at a roadblock with a logbook, a gate count he never leaves unfinished, and reasons of his own he is not telling. He is posted to her pens and her family's ground in the middle of a fire, while somewhere in the smoke an old enemy is selling the valley's secrets and a buyer is coming to collect. Sanna's bear decided at first sight. Sanna decides for herself, in words, in her own order, and a man who counts everything is about to learn what it costs to be counted in.
Smoke and Honey is the final book of the Honeypine Bears trilogy. This is a slow burn, and it earns its fire.
When the smoke clears over Alder Creek, will the valley's secret still be standing, and will she?