Mating Season — Kitty Thomas

Pop Quiz: You're a woman alone in the forest... would you rather run into a man or a bear?I'm lost out in the woods when I cross paths with a strange man. He offers to take me back to his campsite, feed me, get me warm, but every instinct in me screams NO! He is an opportunistic predator, and I am his prey.I run. He chases. And just before I'm traumatized for life, I hear a loud roar as a seven hundred pound Grizzly bear rips the man off me and mauls him to death.So.... Team Bear?If only it were so simple. This isn't just any normal bear. He's a bear shifter, and he's convinced I'm his fated mate.I appreciate the life saving and all, but I have goals and dreams, and I won't allow fate to play matchmaker for me, no matter how otherwise appealing the shifter in question may be.