Bjorn Ritter only wants one thing -- to live his life away from nosey, demanding bears. That's easier said than done when you're the son of the female running the Bayside Bear Community. Cecil Baxter might be a bat, but he grew up away from shifter communities and he's doing his best to continue to keep his distance. Shifters aren't an accepting bunch and Cecil has never fit the norm. Already facing a dreaded meeting with his mother, the last thing Bjorn needs is a stranger using his elevator to escape a pack of werewolves. And Cecil, whose day just seems to be getting worse and worse, could really do without the added stress of finding himself trapped in an elevator with a huge bear shifter. Still, what could go wrong in three minutes?

Elevator Pitch

He’d easily endure a few hours of bullying a week to have what she had. And most of the inhabitants in Bayside accepted Nova’s husband and children as part of them.


It wasn’t something Bjorn counted on ever happening if he found someone to share his life with. No, they wanted him to give up every chance he had of ever being happy, in exchange for becoming something more socially acceptable, someone who would take a wife and pop out a couple of cubs.


He would not give in, though. He would not be getting a wife. He would not start a family unless his future husband wanted children…thenhe might start a family, but it would not be a bear family. And he would not, under any circumstances, pretend to be something he was not. Mother would do what she could, but she wouldn’t win this time, not when it came to this.


His stomach knotted. This meeting would not be a pleasant one.


Chapter 2