Tortured and drugged by a clandestine human organization seeking to turn shifters into supersoldier slaves, bear shifter Cian├бn was rescued by the Mesa Diablo pack. But he was left twisted and broken, some part of him left behind in that too-small cage. Now a quiet forest, alone with his honeybees, is the most he hopes for.
Undeterred by the harsh realities of her upbringing, TrudyтАЩs artistic soul demands she capture all the wonders of the world in her camera lens. When a grumpy, reclusive mountain man saves her from an early-spring snowstorm, she realizes thereтАЩs more to his humped and hairy shyness than meets the eye.
He doesnтАЩt believe she can see past his ugliness, but she wonтАЩt let him hide from a love that burns true in the heart of the beholder.