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Bear Naked

Bear Naked, February 2014
Hallie Shifters #3
by Dana Marie Bell

Samhain Publishing
Featuring: Ryan Williams; Glory Walsh
ISBN: 1619218380
EAN: 9781619218383
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"Her mate will love and protect her ... if she will let him."

Fresh Fiction Review

Bear Naked
Dana Marie Bell

Reviewed by Annetta Sweetko
Posted February 20, 2014

Romance Paranormal

Glory Walsh has a problem, well really a couple of them. She has a fear of abandonment that gives her panic attacks and one very sexy bear shifter who wants to be her mate. The second problem isn't so bad and a big part of her wants to see him BEAR NAKED, but he once left her when he should have been by her side.

Ryan Williams is Glory's mate, and he did leave her once. She was in the hospital, having been shot; the staff wouldn't let him stay with her so he took off to find the shooter. That done, he immediately returned but try to get that through her thick blue-haired head. He finally wrangles a date from her, but things get really bizarre when she thanks him for the gifts he had been sending her. This turns out to be a big problem. He hadn't been sending gifts, and his jealous bear wants to know who would dare send things to his mate.

Before long, Glory's past is coming back to bite her, and Ryan isn't going to put up with that. Their lives are about to get really strange and very frightening.

BEAR NAKED is an amazing story with a lot of deeply emotional drama and some much needed laughter and lots of love. As you read you will find this storyline filled with a number of circumstances that could, unfortunately, come straight from newspaper headlines. Author Dana Marie Bell handles all the situations as only a romance writer can. With a little paranormal twist, she shows that love and support will conquer everything that is thrown at you, even an evil werewolf. I found Glory and her friends Cyn and Tammy to be just what friends should be; there for each other and protective as if they were kin. Ryan is adorable as he tries to maneuver Glory into being his mate without going overly macho, something hard for a grizzly, but he manages, most of the time. This is a fantastic read, and I cannot wait for more.

Just a small warning...if you have not read the other two books of the Halle Shifters by Ms. Bell, you might be a little confused by how all the characters are connected, but that will not affect the pure enjoyment of BEAR NAKED.

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SUMMARY

To win a frightened heart, you have to bare your own.

Any woman would be eager to be Ryan Williams’s mate. Any woman but Glory Walsh. The sexy bear shifter is beautiful, strong and persistent, she’ll give him that. But Glory’s past taught her one simple truth: people leave. She can’t get past the fact he left her once before. Okay, so he had a good reason, and he did come back. Try convincing her emotions.

When Glory finally agrees to a date, Ryan feels like shouting hallelujah. He only left his mate to hunt down the man who’d shot her, but convincing the stubborn woman she has a permanent place at his side is tougher than he thought.

Their date takes a turn for the bizarre when Glory thanks Ryan for the series of romantic gifts—gifts Ryan never sent. It seems her past is coming back to bite her, and before it has a chance to sink its teeth in and tear her out of his life, Ryan will have to bare it all, right down to his soul, to protect the woman he loves. Even from herself.

Warning: This title contains explicit sex, graphic language, a blue-haired heroine, and a hero who isn’t afraid to get all kinds of naked.


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