Professional nature photographer Shayne Law has made a few mistakes in his life, like any other middle-aged gay man. One of those mistakes occurred eight months before on a photography shoot: breaking sexy and alluring Timber Skenandoa's heart, a bear shifter living among the Skenandoa Clan.<br><br>When Shayne is given a photography job in Skenandoa Deep again, near Lake Erie, he may have a second chance at love with the Iroquois Indian, Timber. As Halloween nears, the two men learn each other's ins and outs, and the specifics of why Shayne broke Timber's heart the previous winter. Also, Shayne sees Timber as the Alpha bear shifter he is, and the proud and strong bear leader of his Skenandoa Clan.<br><br>Will Timber take Shayne back as his human lover, coveting Shayne's heart and soul? Or will the man and bear be enemies, at each other's throats, for the rest of their lives?

Timber

“You’re drifting,” Timber said. “What are you thinking about?”


I shook my head, snapping out of my constant staring at Pihu in the distant Deep. “Nothing. I was just recalling how happy you make me, then and now, and what a fool I’ve been. You shouldn’t forgive me.”


“Beginning us again.” He kissed me, breaking my view of Pihu and her black-furred body, pulling my mind away from the possible damage she could do in my world.


I kissed Timber in return and finished breakfast with him, agreeing with his concept of beginning us again.


We made love again on the bed, hidden from his sister so she wouldn’t see our naked and writhing bodies come together.


Afterwards, showering, laughing, perhaps continuing to fall in love again and again, he told me, “Today’s Clan Day.”


Facing each other, using one towel to dry off, standing outside the shower in the minus-one-star bathroom of the cabin, I asked, “What’s Clan Day?”


Chapter 13