Bear Hugs — Margaret L. Carter

When Terri met Beorn -- the only man she's ever known who's tall and broad enough to make her feel delicate -- at last year's Renaissance Faire, she thought they had the beginnings of a relationship. Though he promised to keep in touch, he vanished from her life at the end of the Faire season. With the start of the new season, his house hob shows up with an invitation to Beorn's home -- located in the middle of a forest where it can't possibly exist. He claims to be under a curse he can break only by making someone happy. Since there's nobody else he would rather bestow happiness on, he does his ravishing best to fulfill Terri's most passionate desires. But there's a difference between pleasure and happiness. And Beorn's time is running out.

Inside Scoop: This shifter story features a BBW heroine and a hero who loves every last one of her curves