Christmas with the Bear: A Forbidden Shifter Romance: Bear Shifter Games, #4
By AJ Tipton
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A billionaire bear shifter longing for his forbidden love. A brilliant inventor, unable to control her temper. When these shifters from warring families fall for each other, will the feud tear them apart?
Billionaire architect Cabe Gabel has something missing in his celebrity-studded lifestyle. When he returns to his hometown to cheer on his nephew in the Christmas Shifter Games, Cabe comes face-to-face with his childhood friend and first love, Megan McPhee. The problem: Megan's family has been at war with the Gabels for generations. Can Cabe defy his family's heritage for his lost love?
Megan McPhee has a thriving business and a loving family, but she never forgot her first love, Cabe Gabel. When she sees him again, she vows not to let this second chance pass them by. But when their families' past threatens the couple's rekindled love, will Megan's temper get in the way of what she truly wants?
Christmas with the Bear is a standalone paranormal romance novella in the "Bear Shifter Games" series, set in a contemporary world filled with unexpected wonders, magic, and suspense. If you like steamy romance, muscle-bound shifters, and Christmas magic, you'll love AJ Tipton's breathtaking book.
Buy Christmas with the Bear to get in the holiday spirit today!
AJ Tipton
AJ Tipton is a writing team: Annie and Jess (Get it? "AJ"). Based in Brooklyn with the greatest dog in the world as our mascot, we love to create fun romances that astound, amuse and arouse. Our romances are steamy and paranormal, with strong heroes saving the day through extraordinary adventures. Check out our FREE novella, Coaching the Bear, for a taste of what our magical worlds have to offer! We are huge proponents of informed consent, and love to wind cheeky pop culture references into our works. Let us know which ones you catch! Please say hello! You can get in touch with us through: Email: ajtiptonauthor@gmail.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/AJTiptonAuthor Twitter: twitter.com/AJTiptonAuthor Blog: ajtiptonauthor.wordpress.com
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Christmas with the Bear - AJ Tipton
Christmas with the Bear
A Forbidden Shifter Romance
AJ Tipton
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With each step towards his childhood home, Cabe’s stress headache increased in intensity. He juggled the grocery bags in his hands, each step treacherous on the ice-covered sidewalks. Cabe sighed. Neighbors called out to him from their front stoops as they shoveled freshly-fallen snow and he worked hard to keep a friendly smile fixed on his lips.
It’s good to be home, he reminded himself.
Changes to the neighborhood since he was last home kept drawing his eye. The Andersons had finally taken down the tree which had threatened to flatten their house. A family of otter shifters had moved into the old Beaker house, and installed a pond in their front yard. Three otter children slid and chased each other across the pond’s frozen surface, their claws clicking against the ice. They stopped and waved tiny paws at him as Cabe passed, and he nearly dropped his groceries when he automatically raised his hand to wave back at their cuteness. They laughed and scampered away, already forgetting him.
Cabe usually didn’t make the long trip home for the holidays from California, but this year was different. He’d left in the middle of designing an interconnected system of treehouses for a bear shifter named Sterling Rainbow, a ridiculously wealthy pop star. It just wasn’t coming together the way Cabe had hoped. There was something missing, something in the design that made the elaborate, million-dollar treehouse look like a toy rather than the peaceful sanctuary Cabe had originally envisioned. All of his recent projects felt the same: lacking inspiration, lacking passion. What happened to me? When he was a kid, he'd been a fountain of new ideas, and had cared so deeply about his work and everyone around him.
Perhaps too much, he thought, remembering his best friend and major crush, Megan McPhee. He looked around, half-hoping, half-fearing he would run into her in these familiar streets. Everywhere he looked he saw memories of her: Megan climbing the Anderson’s tree, Megan's blond hair streaming behind her as she raced him down the street; Megan's sad, closed face when he said good bye to her for the last time.
Focus. If I'm going to find inspiration for a dream house, it's going to be here, he thought, clutching the groceries closer to his chest.
He eyed the buttresses along the sides of the mini-castle owned by the Miller skunk shifter family, the tips of the building covered in snow, and tilted his head.
Maybe if I incorporated the gothic style…
Cabe?
His brother, Emile, poked his head out of the house on the far side of the block, yelling down the street. Cabe! Where are those eggs?
Cabe squared his shoulders. His design problems were just going to have to wait.
Coming!
he yelled down the street.
He could feel Emile’s scowl from six houses down, and he picked up the pace. If his brother didn’t get these groceries soon, he feared Emile's shouts might shake the house to kindling.
I guess Grandpa's not home, Cabe thought. Grandpa Frank Gabel would never allow Emile to scream out the front door like that. Frank's signature growl could make everyone in a two block radius stop their misbehavior on a dime. He's probably out at the gym, or out stalking the McPhee family, Cabe thought with a sinking feeling in his chest.
Frank had lost his eye in an all-out brawl with Carl McPhee, Megan's grandfather and the patriarch of the McPhee family, the Gabel family's long-time rival. Ever since that incident, Frank was obsessed with staying in strong fighting shape for whenever those lying, black-hearted McPhees
ever started trouble again. The whole thing just made Cabe tired.
Walk faster!
Emile bellowed from down the street.
I'm coming, you nutbar,
Cabe said in a low voice he knew his brother wouldn't hear from so far away.
By the time Cabe kicked open the door and entered the living room, the house where his brother’s family lived with Cabe and Emile's parents was already in disarray. Papers from Emile’s latest legal case were still scattered across the living room floor from an earlier tantrum. Pillows were strewn down the hallway, and his parents' yoga mats and accessories were in the middle of the dining room. Cabe found his nephew, Ralph, sitting cross-legged on the kitchen floor on top of a towel, stirring a powdery mixture that had splattered equal parts onto him, on top