AWAKENED BY HER BEAR (Black Ridge Bears 5) by Felicity Heaton
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date October 12, 2021
Decades in captivity and hundreds of fights in the arena have moulded Maverick into a bear with a bad attitude and a dark hunger for violence. Twenty years later and he’s still trying to let go of his past and move on, but a phone call sets him on a collision course with a female from his time at the compound—the one female he always wanted but could never have, and thought he would never see again—a beautiful bear who stirs desires best denied and wrecks his rigid control.
When Bronwyn receives a video call from an Archangel huntress who has captured her brother, she’ll do anything to save him, even condemn another to suffer in the cages in his place. But when a familiar voice answers the number of the shifter she’s meant to bring in, hurling her back in time and rousing a fierce need that has only been growing in their years apart, can she lie to the only man she’s ever loved and lure him back into hell?
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REVIEW: AWAKENED BY HER BEAR is the fifth novella length instalment in Felicity Heaton’s contemporary, adult BLACK RIDGE BEARS erotic, romance series- a spin off from the author’s COUGAR CREEK MATES series. This is bear shifters Maverick and Bronwyn ‘Winnie’ story line. AWAKENED BY HER BEAR can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary but there is an ongoing premise throughout with the inclusion of the group known as Archangel.
Told from dual third person perspectives (Maverick and Winnie) AWAKENED BY HER BEAR follows the second chance romance and relationship between bear shifters Maverick and Winnie. Years earlier, Winnie and Maverick were captured by the group known as Archangel, a organization run by humans in an effort to rid the world of the supernatural shifters. Upon their escape, Winnie and Maverick went in different directions. Fast forward to present day wherein Winnie’s brother Andrew has been captured by Archangel, Winnie must follow their commands but in doing so places the bear that she loves in the direct line of fire. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Winnie and Maverick, and the potential fall-out as betrayal, jealousy and heart break find our couple facing an adversary, well known to both.
The relationship between Winnie and Maverick is one of second chances. Maverick protected our heroine while in the custody of Archangel but Maverick was forced to fight in the rings, kill or be killed, and in this, our hero struggles with what was and what may be. Winnie has known for several years that Maverick is her mate but convincing Maverick takes more than she ever though possible considering Maverick believes he is unworthy of love. The $ex scenes are intimate, passionate and edgy, without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.
We are reintroduced to Maverick’s ‘brother’ and fellow pack mates: Rune, Knox, Saint, and Lowe, as well as Winnie’s brother Andrew. The requisite evil has many faces.
AWAKENED BY HER BEAR is a story of betrayal and vengeance, jealousy and love, family and friendships. The premise is edgy and captivating; the romance is provocative and fated; the characters are broken but healing.
Reading Order and Previous reviews
Stolen By Her Bear
Rescued by Her Bear
Saved by Her Bear
Unleashed by Her Bear
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Reviewed by Sandy
Felicity Heaton is a New York Times and USA Today international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons! If you’re a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling London Vampires series. Seven sexy and sinful Greek god brothers can be your new addiction in the Guardians of Hades series. Or how about four hot alpha shifter brothers in her Cougar Creek Mates series? Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the Eternal Mates series.
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