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Welcome to Pinecrest—where the werebears are hot, the forest
is dangerous, and falling in love could cost you everything.
Hard to Bear
Law of the Wild Book 1
by J. Ashburn
Genre: M/M Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
Sheriff. Tribesman. Werebear.
Everything Ben knows about love and life is about to change.
His name’s Ben Kodiak. He’s a werebear but not your typical one. First off,
he’s into dudes and loves to hang with other bears, of the big and burly kind.
Deal with it. Second, he has a job to do, and doesn’t have time for twinks or
players. He’s the guy who makes sure no werebear hurts a human in the wild and
vice versa. He enforces the law of his tribes and investigates any
transgressions. If a shifter gets a little rowdy they get to deal with him.
It was business as usual until the attack happened. This time on one of Ben’s
own kind. Not the kind of thing he’s used to. Who in their right mind would
mess with a werebear? It was his job to find out and that was going to be
really hard, because the new human ranger assigned to the forest is a complete
distraction and he has set Ben’s heart on fire.
But something just isn’t right. There’s something off about this murder and the
timing of Garret, the new ranger, is just a bit coincidental. Does he trust
this man with his shifter secret and his affections or should he keep him on
his list of suspects?
Find out in Hard to Bear. The Law of the Wild book 1. The new series by J.
Ashburn!
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Sheriff Ben Kodiak stared outside of his office window and
longed to frolic among the great pines and the thick underbrush or wade in the
mountain streams and run through fields of wildflowers.
He sighed and pulled himself back to his paperwork. No one
ever said it would be easy to be the law keeper between werebears and humans.
Luckily for him it never really got too out of hand… a drunk werebear once in a
while or a love triangle between bears and humans that should never have
started in the first place. But those were stories for another time.
Most of the humans that lived up in the Pinecrest Mountains
had no idea there was a population of werebears living among them…or that there
were several clans of them. And as long as Ben was on the job they never would.
Most of the werebears were mistaken for Sasquatch sightings and he got more
than a few reports, even some fuzzy photos, of a bear in mid-transformation,
ducking into the thick forest trees. That was fine with Ben. He even had a hand
in letting those reports flourish… it took the attention off the real tribes
that roamed the forest.
As the unofficial peacekeeper between humans and werebears
and between each of the bear clans, Ben had his hands, or paws quite full. He
was a werebear himself, from one of the oldest tribes on the mountains. The
Village of Briar River was the home of his people and where his office was
located, on the outskirts between town lines. Most human inhabitants thought of
the werebear villages or towns as Native American reservations and that was
fine with him. That way they would normally just visit or pass through instead
of trying to buy property in Briar River or Bramble Point, and instead made
their homes in the human town of Coldbrook further down the
mountains.
Still, the Pinecrest Mountains were a very popular hiking
and camping destination for everyone, outsiders included, and it was tough work
keeping everything balanced. Luckily the forest rangers worked closely with Ben
and had become close friends. He just saw one of them ride by in a Jeep through
his window on their way to the trailheads. That’s what Ben wished he was doing,
heading for a hike in the many trails, but duty called.
There had been a small fight, a slight altercation really,
in the werebear bar in Briar River’s town center last night. A human stranger
had a little too much and picked a fight with one of the local werebears.
Luckily for the stranger, Buck Halberd kept his cool and didn’t put him through
a wall. Still, the drunken human stumbled out of the bar and fled down the road
just before closing time.
Ben needed to head over to the bar and get a statement and
description. If the human was still in the area he could be in some trouble or
causing some trouble. Either way, those were two scenarios Ben would rather not
see play out. Time to get his ass into gear.
Bear With Me
Law of the Wild Book 2
The romance and adventure continue in Book 2 of J. Ashburn’s
Law of the Wild Series.
Winter in the Forest
Mountains.
Sheriff Ben Kodiak and his new love, Garrett, hunker down to
enjoy a long, enchanting winter nestled in the warmth of each other until their
bliss is once again interrupted by mysterious new murders.
Ben’s people, his werebear tribe, sleep in hibernation
except for Lily, the new shaman. Visions and dreams wake and haunt her: danger,
killings–something monstrous is coming and the only person she can turn to is
Ben.
After the events of the previous spring, Ben thought things
would return to normal in the quiet forest towns of the mountaintops. He was
wrong. He will need all of his shifter powers and resourcefulness to brace for
what’s coming, for not only does it threaten the love of his life, his people
and his town but the entire world.
J. Ashburn is your source for exciting, sensual gay
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settings. Werewolves, witches, polymorphs, psychic warriors, phantoms,
creatures of the night and more dominate the worlds of J. Ashburn. Follow the
paths of romance and the supernatural entwined with hearts and minds of men who
love men.
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