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

When I started slowing the pickup down, almost coming to a stop, two things transpired within a second of time: the five strong-featured men in the distance started to shift into their bear forms, one by one, and Timber, also in human form, stepped out of the Deep, walked up to the Ford’s hood, turned, and faced me, pounded his fists on the pickup’s hood, growled like a bear, and became red-faced, obviously angry as hell at me.


Chapter 21