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

Ridge vanished just as quickly as he had arrived. Thereafter, I was left alone with Timber inside the studio, hugging him, beginning to kiss him, and starting something naughty between us that maybe we shouldn’t have started, but couldn’t resist.


Woreland Field, I learned, sat exactly above the Skenandoa family’s Den. After making love with Timber and showering, we exited the den, and he led me out of his underground world. Once again in the confines of Skenandoa Deep, he escorted me to the end of the autumn woods, which opened to a privately owned field called Woreland. The field looked as if a giant picnic were taking place with more than a hundred or more people, all relatives, and none of which were in their bear forms, keeping discreet from the public views from people in helicopters, airplanes, and non-shifting trespassers on their private property.


Chapter 16