On his first night renting a cottage on the Cornish coast, widower John Tennant comes face to face with, of all things, a grizzly bear. Fearing for his life, John tries to convince the animal he isn't worth eating, and is relieved when the bear ambles away. Maintenance man Mitch Benjamin is two hundred years old but doesn’t look a day over forty. As a werebear, he needs to stay under the radar. The new renter is making that difficult. Not only is John attractive, but his vulnerability triggers all of Mitch’s protective instincts. If that wasn’t trouble enough, Mitch is struggling with his inner bear’s desire to befriend John. He knows what his bear is up to, but Mitch doesn’t want another mate. His last one was murdered ninety years ago, and he’s still grieving. John is confused by Mitch’s mixed signals. Physically, Mitch -- with his bulging muscles and hulking frame -- is a gay man’s wet dream come true. But emotionally, he keeps closing down. John discovers more comfort with the magnificent grizzly bear he occasionally meets on his evening walks along the beach. In an effort to help, Morwenna, the owner of the cottages, uses her psychic gifts to give John a message from his dead lover, George. Far from helping, it adds another layer of strangeness to what’s already turning out to be the strangest summer John can remember. Can a well-meaning medium and a determined grizzly bring John and Mitch together? Will Mitch come clean about his werebear nature? If he does, can John accept that a man and bear exist in the same body?

Summer's Lease

“Okay, guess you’re comfortable now.” He slid his stockinged feet under the bear’s chest. “Now I’m comfortable, too.”


“Jimmy’s hips crashed into Carl’s buns one last time before he emptied his grade A USM bear spunk into the warm, milking channel that was Carl’s ass.


“Carl reached for his leaking dick and, after only a couple of strokes, painted his smooth chest with rivers of steaming hot twink juice.”


Teddy stood and stretched. If John wasn’t very much mistaken, the bear had an erection. John knew he did.


Teddy walked to the kitchen door, sat, then looked over a massive shoulder at John. Remembering his promise to let Teddy go whenever he wanted to leave, John set aside his Kindle, got to his feet, and glanced at his wristwatch.


“Heavens, is it that late? I need to get ready to take Mitch to the college.”


Then he remembered they were going out afterward. That would mean he’d need to bathe and change.


Chapter 63