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Bestselling authors Candace Ayers and Kym Dillon bring you SHORT "lunchtime quickie" reads—condensed romances intended to be read in under 2 hours!
Welcome to Mystic Hollow where wildest dreams (trust me, they do get wild) come true.
As Alpha of Mystic Hollow's bear shifter clan, duty dictates my every move.
When the Shifter Council responds to our declining population by enacting the BfB (Brides for Beasts) program, the guys are pretty excited to be introduced to human females.
I am too, until I fall head over heels for the program coordinator who makes it very clear she is not one of the bride-wannabes.
Fine. I'm a patient man. I'll convince her. I have time.
Except I DON'T have time.
The council demands I be the first to select a bride—within two days!
Then I screw up, shift into a grizzly before her eyes, freak her the eff out...
...and she takes off running.
**This is a short, feel-good, instalove-inspired, fated mates bear shifter romance.**
READING ORDER (Yes, you can skip around!)
BfB: Bears series
BfB: Wolves series
BfB: Dragons series
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