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    Bear Trapped: Mating Heat, #2
    Bear Trapped: Mating Heat, #2
    Bear Trapped: Mating Heat, #2
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    Bear Trapped: Mating Heat, #2

    By Jaide Fox

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    After failing to find a mate during the Moonlight Festival, Kimber uses the wolf clan’s distraction to escape Fangor and set out on her own to hide from her guilt and shame. Living alone in the wild seems a better option than facing her parents’ disappointment, especially since she finds an abandoned cave perfect for weathering the long winter nights.

     

    Escaping his bothersome family for the winter, Braeden journeys to his retreat only to discover his safe haven invaded by the last thing he wanted or expected to find—a she-wolf on the brink of mating heat.

     

    Rating: Light-hearted fantasy paranormal romance. Bear Shifter. Wolf Shifter. Highly sensual depictions.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndrea DePasture
    Release dateMar 21, 2015
    ISBN9781507092972
    Bear Trapped: Mating Heat, #2

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      Despite what their previous commenter said said it's not a bad book it's actually pretty good if you like shifter books
      A slow burn with pretty good characters it's a good fast comfortable read
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    Bear Trapped - Jaide Fox

    BEAR TRAPPED

    Jaide Fox

    Table of Contents

    Title Page

    Bear Trapped (Mating Heat, #2)

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Chapter Nine

    Chapter Ten

    Chapter Eleven

    Other titles by Jaide Fox:

    Mating Heat 1: Mating Rights (Interracial Fantasy Romance)

    Mating Heat 2: Bear Trapped (Interracial Fantasy Romance)

    Beastmen of Shadowmere 1: Marked by the Beast (Interracial Fantasy Romance)

    Beastmen of Shadowmere 2: Seduced by the Beast (Interracial Fantasy Romance)

    Beastmen of Shadowmere 3: Conquered by the Beast (Interracial Fantasy Romance)

    Dark Lords 1: Captured by the Dark Lord (Dark Fantasy Romance)

    Dark Lords 2: Seized by the Vampire Lord (Dark Fantasy Romance)

    Dark Lords 3: Ensnared by the Dream Lord (Dark Fantasy Romance)

    Captured by Aliens 1: Alien’s Captive (Interracial Futuristic Romance)

    Captured by Aliens 2: Alien Insurgence (Interracial Futuristic Romance)

    Captured by Aliens 3: Alien Intent (Interracial Futuristic Romance)

    Captured by Aliens 4: Alien Resistance (Interracial Futuristic Romance—Coming late 2015)

    Interstellar Mayhem 1: StarCaught (Futuristic Romance)

    Interstellar Mayhem 2: StarRomped (Futuristic Romance)

    Pleasure Masters 1: Ravaged (Futuristic Romance)

    Pleasure Masters 2: Dominated (Futuristic Romance)

    Pleasure Masters 3: Mastered (Futuristic Romance)

    PleasureBot (Futuristic Romance)

    Trained for Pleasure (Futuristic Romance)

    Archangel (Futuristic Romance)

    Summoner’s Captive (Dark Fantasy Romance)

    Earth Girls Aren’t Easy (Interracial Futuristic Romance)

    His Forbidden Fruit (Interracial Fantasy Romance)

    Renegade (Futuristic Romance—in TAMING THE ALPHA Box Set)

    Eden 1: Primal (Futuristic Romance—COMING SOON)

    Tales of the Scimtari: Riker’s Revenge (Futuristic Romance Serial—COMING SOON)

    © Copyright by Jaide Fox March 2015

    Cover art by Eliza Black, © copyright March 2015

    www.jaidefoxbooks.com

    This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and places are of the author’s imagination and not to be confused with fact. Any resemblance to living persons or events is merely coincidence.

    Chapter One

    Escaping the town of Fangor required little effort and subterfuge on Kimber’s part. Within the first few days after the attack on the city by rogue bears from the Ursine clan, her people—the wolf clan—were too busy in the forest finding suitably thick timber to replace the broken gates and ramparts that surrounded the town. By pure luck, she’d escaped granting mating rights to a man unworthy and uninteresting to her.

    Unlike her friend, Mali, who’d found a love match worth envy with Jaxon, Kimber had been unable to drum up enough interest in any of the available males in the clan during the Moonlight Festival. Certainly there were handsome suitors, but she wanted more than just a pretty face. She wanted a man who would value and treasure her, as Mali had with Jaxon. She only had to observe them for a moment to see that Jaxon adored Mali, and nothing less would do for her. Perhaps it was wrong to desire such things. Her mama had told her to find someone she could be friends with, which made little sense to her. What about passion and lust? Why even bother mating at all if she could only muster lukewarm feelings toward a mate?

    She wondered if her lack of attraction could be pin-pointed to her nonexistent mating heat. Kimber sighed heavily, hefting her belongings into a better position on her back. Mali had invited her to travel with her and Jaxon to her parents’ home, but that had been out of the question for Kimber. She had no intention of being the odd wheel on that journey.

    She could return to her own home, but the image of disappointment on her family’s faces was more than she could endure. With four small children still at home, they’d struggled to gather a proper cache of clothing and supplies to send her away with.  They would not want to know that she’d neglected choosing a partner for something as silly as passion.

    Winter approached, leaving the valley floor cold, moist, and misty as the weather settled over the land. Fangor was long behind her. What possessed her in this madness to think she could live in the wild by herself until spring? Glancing around with every step, she kept her eyes peeled for a suitable resting place for the night. The days grew shorter and shorter, and she didn’t relish the possibility that she would have to spend another frigid night under the stars without a den.

    She’d never traveled this far north, however, and her ignorance of the area tempted her to turn back, swallow her pride, and face her family’s crushed dreams of her happily mated. Obviously, it was too far to walk to the coast—which was her original, poorly planned idea. Mountains seemed to cover the land for miles, reaching for the sky with jagged, rocky hands tipped in snow. Dried, brown leaves coated the ground, and soon even that disappeared as spruce and pine surged from hardened dirt.

    This was no place for a comfortable night’s rest. She stopped and looked up, hoping for a depression against the wind. A dark shadow smudged the hill, and at first, she thought it just a shadow from an outcrop of rock. She realized after studying the spot for several minutes that it was a cave. A thrill raced through her but she tamped it down before she could get too excited. It could be occupied already, or not nearly big enough for her to sleep in.

    Kimber scaled the hill, ignoring the sounds of rocks and gravel tumbling down the hillside as she struggled to the cave using roots for leverage when her thighs screamed at the abuse. She felt like a mountain goat when she finally reached her goal and stood victorious and out of breath at the entrance. The cave was bigger than it appeared from below—a full two feet higher than her head and broad enough she could walk inside abreast of a companion.

    Her keen vision allowed her to look into the space shrouded in darkness by the deep walls. A fire had once been kept in the mouth, evidenced by scattered ash and small bits of charcoal. Further inside, she could see dead, dried spruce bows where someone had once made a bed, but there was no sign of recent residence. Kimber hefted her bag from her shoulders and sat it on the dirty cave floor.

    Beyond the dim shafts of light, the cave reached back another fifteen feet. There was no one inside—it looked abandoned. Hello? she called, receiving no reply except the scratch of leaves on rock as the wind howled through the walls.

    Kimber, you’ve just found your new home, she said to herself. Time to go on a hunt and get dinner for tonight. The fact that she’d begun talking to herself didn’t disturb her nearly as much as it had before. She guessed having a roof over her head and a place to sit out the winter had given her more confidence in her ability to rough it in the wild.

    Kimber peeled her long, red

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