Estes Park Shifters

One sexy carpenter bear shifter. One sassy human with a sweet, sweet cinnamon roll. Allie Rowe is in a bind after drunk raccoons do a number on her business, Sticky Sweet Bakery. With a major event coming up, she can't afford to be out of commission . . . but she can't afford to fix things, either. Her meddling father thinks he'll play matchmaker when he hires sexy carpenter and bear shifter Dax Mitchell to lend a hand. She's already played the rejected mate game, and isn't going there again, thanks. Bear shifters are trouble with muscles. Shifters are off limits! Dax won't take no for an answer, making her wonder if he's helping from the kindness of his heart, or if he'll require some sort of repayment . . . Dax is under pressure to take a mate before the fates rob him of his strength. His dying father's wish is to see his son mated. A staunch bachelor, Dax is inclined to change his mind when sexy, curvy Allie offers him a taste of her sweet roll. When an unexpected enemy makes himself known, and time winds down on his chance to take a mate, Dax must decide how far he'll go to claim his fated mate. Contains mature themes.

One minute Cara Neal is celebrating her win as Kansas City's Entrepreneur of the Year by maybe drinking too much and finding the wrong guy . . . the next, she's carrying a secret and every male bear shifter in three states is after her. She's on the run, forced to leave her thriving jewelry business behind for the wild Colorado mountains. She has no choice but to accept help from the alpha mountain man grizzly shifter who offers protection, free of charge. He's sexy. Tormented. Maybe a little gruff. But any man who sings to his hives of honeybees can't be that intimidating, right? Until he turns those dark, hungry eyes on her, and Cara knows she's going to have to repay his kindness. And . . . probably not with one of her award-winning necklaces. Jett Mitchell had a family once. They're gone, and so is his tolerance for anyone outside his mountain. When the sexy little human shows up with her surprise baby bump, his protective instincts go into overdrive. Bear shifters don't get a second chance fated mate. He can't keep her . . . But he'll be her bear shifter protector until it's time to let her go. And heaven help any other male who gets in his way. Contains mature themes.

A treasure hunt gone wrong. A grizzly shifter who will stop at nothing to claim his mate Grizzly shifter Desi Mitchell is ready to settle down and start a family. As a former security expert for the United States military, he's starting his own security firm just in time as frenzied treasure hunters from the Famous Race take over the town and bring a rash of weird happenings. He's watching out for the residents, including sexy new bookstore owner, Kora Meredith. His bear wants to claim her as his fated mate. She wants him to secure her home tighter than Fort Knox and get lost. Kora is converting the hundred-year-old brothel into a bookstore to help forget her past. Staying busy helps soothe her chaotic mind-a mind that won't let her have a relationship, or grand adventures, or go to the store somedays. She tries to deter Desi when he insists on helping her. She resists when he swears they are fated mates. But the clues lead them to a treasure neither of them was expecting. And danger threatens to push Kora over the edge. Can they find what they're looking for before it's too late? Contains mature themes.

Fox Mitchell has made a name for himself teaching high-octane survival classes to city slickers looking for adventure. No one is going to domesticate and neuter him, thanks. Especially not the irritating woman who tries to rope him into an interview for some magazine. He's about to send her packing when his family reminds him, he needs a date for a wedding and they're not about to back off until he gets one. Lulu Orlando has a lot to prove to her boss. As the only female reporter on staff for a prestigious men's magazine, she uses a contact in Estes Park to find Fox Mitchell, the sought-after survival expert no one has been able to coax into an interview. She has no choice but to agree when Fox proposes a deal: be his fake girlfriend for a weekend and successfully complete his most challenging survival course, and she can have the interview. She doesn't realize she's trekking head-first into danger, and strength she didn't know she had. Fox gets more than he bargains for but everything his inner grizzly bear craves, as he's forced to let go of what he thought he wanted . . . To save the one thing he can't live without. Contains mature themes.

Liz Paffel presents Book 5 in the Estes Park Shifters series. Contains mature themes.