BeWere My Heart

These social worker bear shifters give the term mama bear a whole new meaning! Bestselling author Mary Janice Davidson is back with this brand-new paranormal romance series featuring a foster care system for at-risk shifter babies and teens. Werebear shifter Annette Garsea is a caseworker for the Interspecies Placement Agency. When a selectively mute and freakishly strong teen werewolf is put in her custody, Annette has to uncover the young girls secrets if she’s to have any hopes of helping her. And not even the growling of a scruffy private investigator can distract her from her mission Bear shifter David Auberon appreciates Annette’s work with at-risk teen shifters, but he’s not sure if her latest charge is so much a vulnerable teen as a predator who should be locked up. All that changes when he, Annette, and her motley band of juveniles find themselves dodging multiple murder attempts and uncovering a trafficking cartel that doesn’t just threaten the kids, but risks discovery of the shifters by the wider world of homo sapiens.

Orphans and humans and weres, oh my! Escape into this delicious shifter romance from bestselling author Mary Janice Davidson. Oz Adway is a rare breed: an accountant who wants to get dirty. And, by the way, a wolf shifter working for the Interspecies Placement Agency. Bored with his safe office job, he volunteers to find runaway bear cub Sally Smalls, recently orphaned by a plane crash. Piece of cake, right? Unfortunately, Sally's taken refuge with "ordinary" human Lila Kai, a reluctant guardian who has no idea what's going on, but will destroy anyone who tries to take the cub. Not that it matters. Oz is not about to let a gorgeous Stable jeopardize his career move. As for Lila, she knows something's different about the sexy weirdo who keeps popping up in the wrong place at the right time. She's determined to figure out what, regardless of the escalating threats to her safety and Oz's distracting hotness. She didn't move into a cursed house and take in a werebear just to run when things get complicated. Together, Oz and Lila will prevail! But only if they can keep their hands off each other... Put away your pocket protectors: This hilarious story includes a nerdy shifter accountant with a bad-boy side, a fiercely protective human heroine, and a baby bear cub that will make every reader sigh in cuteness.

We all know there's a dark web, a deep web, a super-duper secret web, a fifth column, a shadow government, black market cheese and underground wrestling, but there's also a foster care system set up for vulnerable/dangerous minors. And not just any minors: shapeshifters. And not just shapeshifters: traumatized shifters who would be incredibly dangerous to others even without PTSD. Like any underground organization, it runs parallel (but unnoticed) beside the foster care system for "Normies". And while shifters only make up a small percentage of the population, that's still a lot of orphans to keep track of. Enter Annette Garsea, caseworker for the Interspecies Placement Agency, who was once in the foster system herself after her parents were killed in Yosemite. Like all such employees, her caseload is ridiculous. She's currently responsible for thirteen were-children, from the four-month-old werewolf cub orphaned by a fire to a twelve-year-old werefox with a penchant for shoplifting. Her charges have to be protected from their circumstances, an uncaring world, and themselves. Her newest charge, Caro Daniels, is a sixteen-year-old werewolf arrested for felony assault and, to make things extra puzzling, is selectively mute. Does she have family? If so, where? And how could she track and administer a jaw-dropping beatdown to an adult werewolf in his prime? One who has no idea who she is? One who would have lost the fight if David Auberon hadn't popped up? Annette doesn't know, but means to find out. Caro is under her wing now, and God help the fool who gets between her and any of her charges. And that includes David, the bearshifter private investigator who has a knack for turning up at exactly the wrong time and saying exactly the wrong thing. He doesn't see Caro as a vulnerable teen who needs protection, but as a predator who should be locked up. He's been on the girl's backtrail for a week, doesn't like anything he's found, and thinks Annette is dangerously naive. Worse than naive, actually-he worries she's in deep water and doubts her ability to swim. For her part, Annette's not interested in the jaded mutterings of the appealingly scruffy P.I. Solitary bears make her nervous, and the man's practically a savage, old-school in all the wrong ways. She's going to solve the mystery of Caro, and if there are doubters on deck, that's fine. She's dealt with them before. It's amazing how many forget what happens when you get between a werebear and her charge: you have to face down 600 pounds of furry fury with a bite force of 1200 psi. And because life isn't complicated enough, hanging over their heads at all times is the constant fear of discovery by the wider world of homo sapiens, the most rapacious predators in the history of the planet. After Annette and David get their HEA, two more books will follow, showcasing Normie allies and unfairly maligned apex predators like werehyenas, a despised suborder with an unfair rep for being cowardly giggling weirdos (they are the Bellatrix Lestranges of the were world).