Shifter: Black Bear, Part 1: Black Bear, #1

By Emerald Wright

Part ONE!! 

An island to himself, will loner bear-shifter Ryker open his heart to a woman on the run from her abusive spouse?

A loner by nature, Ryker needs a day to himself to allow his inner bear out. So, he hikes up to Emerald Lake.

Charlene never meant to be in trouble, but for whatever reason, trouble has a bad habit of finding her. She's running from a monster. A monster who has made a habit of beating her nearly every week since they got married and she's had enough. She's on the run and leaving her soon to be ex-husband behind. For good.

Will they be able to overcome their challenges and embrace the love that's destined to be theirs?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Manifestiny Entertainment, LLC
• Release date: Apr 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386150749

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SHIFTER

[[ Black Bear ]]

PART 1

By

Emerald Wright

SHIFTER – Black Bear, Part 1 © 2016 - 2017

by Emerald Wright

Published by Manifestiny Entertainment, LLC

Cover Design by Manifestiny Entertainment, LLC

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(( SERIAL told in PARTS, BBW, Paranormal, Romance, Interracial (BMWW), 3rd Person Dual POV’s by Primary Characters ))

DESCRIPTION: A loner by nature, Ryker needs a day to himself to allow his inner bear out. So, he hikes up to Emerald Lake.

Charlene never meant to be in trouble, but for whatever reason, trouble has a bad habit of finding her. She’s running from a monster. A monster who has made a habit of beating her nearly every week since they got married and she’s had enough. She’s on the run and leaving her soon to be ex-husband behind. For good.

Will they be able to overcome their challenges and embrace the love that’s destined to be theirs?

Table of Contents

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CHAPTER SIX

CHAPTER SEVEN

CHAPTER EIGHT

CHAPTER NINE

CHAPTER TEN

CHAPTER ONE

[[ 1 ]]

RYKER

It was Ryker’s day off. He was breathing heavy, trekking up the hiking trail fast and furious. Some much needed peace and quiet was his goal for the day and the best way for him to do this was to get out of the city and up into the mountains. 

He’d already passed the halfway point up to Emerald Lake and was an hour into the hike. Most hikers would take two, maybe even three hours to get that far along. Ryker had an advantage. As a Special Forces military operative, he was highly skilled and exceptionally trained. His tall, muscled physique was part blessing of good heritage and DNA, part hard work in the field and gym.

And he was a shapeshifter. A black bear.

Despite his leadership being full well aware of his shifter status, they didn’t approve of uncontrolled shifts that might be accidentally brought about by a negative emotional state. Only willing and controlled shifts that he was trained to use when doing military work for the government.

It had been a while since he’d had the chance to shift in private, and his inner bear was feeling caged up, antsy, restless and even irked. Ryker knew that if he didn’t shift soon, he was running the risk of an incident and that never ended well. 

Sweat dribbled from his brow and he pulled out his handkerchief to wipe it off his face. Pushing himself onward and forward, glad to be free of civilization for some much needed solitude, he was in a passive, calm state of mind.

Sensing another presence, he turned his head to look over his shoulder. When he practically tripped over a woman sitting on