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

Some ten minutes later, Timber and I stood at the base of a large oak tree that he guessed was over four hundred years old and one hundred and twenty feet tall. The tree looked as if it were an X in shape, a tangle of bark and thick limbs. A massive twist of roots fell into the earth at its base, creating what looked like a spade-shaped hole, root-covered arbor, or entrance. I estimated the entrance to the Skenandoa Den as four feet high and two feet wide, covered in dry moss the color of raisins and mid-season grapes. It was just enough space to slip through for a Skenandoa bear, or human.


Chapter 14