The Bears of Grizzly Ridge: The Complete Series

Each book in the Bears of Grizzly Ridge is a standalone story with a guaranteed HEA and No Cliffhangers! This series contains: strong, sassy, curvy women; sexy alpha males; steamy shifters and sizzling sex scenes.

Start with the oldest brother in book 1...

His to Protect - Every Shifter has a mate. She's his. Now all he has to do is convince her that what they have between them is more than lust—much more.

Then move on to the next brother with book 2...

His to Seduce - Fated mates? No way! Fiercely independent, she's determined to deny their attraction. He's just as determined to change her mind.

His to Claim-  He's haunted by the secrets of the past. She's running towards a safer future. An undeniable attraction with the power to save them both…if it's not too late.

Hers to Take-  Her family or her heart? She made the wrong choice once before. Can she survive it a second time?

His to Defend-  He’s a shifter. She’s a human. Their attraction is…dangerous.

His to Tame- Fated mates. A fated family. One mistake that could shatter them all.

His to Seek-  Nothing can stand in the way of fated mates—except maybe themselves. 

Hers for the Season-  When attraction puts everything—and everyone—at risk, the choice is simple…

- Fated Mates
- Alpha Males
- Insta Love
- Big, Loving Family
- Single Dad
- Fake Relationship
- Holiday/ Christmas
- Rejected Mate
- Learn to Love Again

Axel Jackson surveyed the land on the ridge and all he and his brothers had accomplished in the last nine months: The individual cabins tucked among the trees where he and his brothers lived. The barn that held a few trail riding horses. And of course the main lodge—the Den, they called it—that housed the guest rooms and main gathering spaces. They’d worked hard building a place they could call home. They’d had to.
More than that, they’d created a place they could build a life. If you called banishment from everything they’d known a life. But he did. As the eldest brother, and the alpha, there was no other choice.
He held the letter from his grandfather in his hand. The same letter he’d carried with him for almost a year. The patriarch of the clan, Gordon Jackson, was still old school when it came to communication. But it didn’t matter how he chose to communicate; the message was just as old school.
Axel read the words he already knew by heart.
“Your failure to protect your clanmate, your sister, has resulted in your banishment from Jackson Valley. Until which time you and your brothers are able to return Kira, unharmed, to her proper clan, you will no longer be welcome in the Valley or in the Clan.”
He should rip it up and throw it into the wind. Instead, he folded it carefully along the timeworn crease lines. And just in time.
“I told you to throw that damn thing away,” his brother Luke growled as he joined him on the ridge. His nakedness meant he’d recently been in his bear form. His preferred form. As shifters, they lived by a different code. Another reason the brothers had chosen the ridge to settle away from the others.
“Better yet,” the youngest of the Jackson brothers, Kade, came to stand by Axel, “burn it.”
Axel tucked it away into his pocket; Luke scoffed and shook his head. His scruffy, too-long long hair covered his eyes, but Axel could still see the disapproval there. “I don’t know why you bother,” he said. “The old man doesn’t give a shit about us. He cast us out, the same way he cast out our parents. Giving him even a moment of our time is too much.”
Everything his brother said was true. It wasn’t the first time their grandfather had cast out a member. When their mother, Tonia, had fallen in love and subsequently chosen their father, Mark Chapman, who hailed from a rival clan, Gordon hadn’t hesitated to banish her as well. Axel remembered very little about their parents, but he remembered more than the rest of them; he was five when they’d been sent back to the Jackson clan to live with their grandfather, and made to take the Jackson name again, forsaking the Chapman clan. He didn’t know why or how it had come to pass, because no one would talk about it, but the fact remained: their grandfather was the only family they had.
“He’s still family,” he said to his brothers. “Our family.”
“No,” Kade said. “Family doesn’t disown family because of a choice their sister makes.” He winced and looked out over the ridge. Talking about Kira was hardest for Kade. As her twin brother, he felt the most that he’d let her down. Or perhaps that she’d been the one to let him down by choosing a mate in the first place. She’d known the consequences of her actions: alpha females in the Jackson clan didn’t choose their own mates. Period. It was important to protect the lineage of the clan, and it was about more than producing cubs; it was more a business transaction between clan leaders than anything else. Which meant the granddaughter of the alpha male was promised. Not that it had mattered to Kira. She’d fallen in love. No matter what the cost had been to anyone else.
“Bear families do.” Axel knew he was wasting his breath. It was the same argument they’d had for months. Ever since they’d tracked Kira the way they were told to. Only, instead of bringing her back to the clan the way their grandfather had commanded, they’d left her to live with her mate and his Kodiak clan. After hearing her story of fated mates, and how it felt as if their souls had chosen each other, the brothers agreed they had to leave her alone. All three of them had differing opinions about mating, but one thing none of them could deny was that forcing her to go with them and leave her mate would have been devastating to Kira. Never mind the war it likely would have sparked between the clans. None of the brothers were willing to do it. They’d decided then and there that together they’d accept whatever punishment their grandfather doled out.
No one had expected banishment.
Axel ran his hands through his thick hair. It had been months since he’d had it cut. A benefit to living on the ridge, as far as he was concerned. The bear in him preferred to live a bit wilder. Just not as wild as Luke, who still sat next to him naked, one leg bouncing restlessly. He was itching to take his leave so he could shift back into his bear and run through the woods. Luke was much harder to tame. The ridge lifestyle suited him most of all. He’d had the easiest time making the transition. Except when it came to potential mates. But that was part of the sacrifice. There were no females on the ridge. They were alone. Mating was less and less of an option.
A mate would calm the bear in all of them. And as the wildest of the three, Luke stood to benefit the most from mating. Not that he’d admit it. In fact, Luke would vehemently deny that he needed anything but the wilds of Montana and the freedom to do what he wanted. Kade sought his relief, however temporary, in the arms of whatever females he could find, driving down into town as often as he could. He’d be the hardest of all of them to convince that a mate could be a good thing. He’d seen firsthand the damage taking a mate could do, and as hardheaded as he was, there was no changing his mind.
As far as Axel was concerned, he wouldn’t rule it out if the right female somehow appeared. Not that it was likely.
Whatever. He shook his head to focus on the task at hand. There was no point dwelling on what couldn’t be changed. “Is everything ready?”
Kade turned back to face him. The quietest of the three, sullen and almost angry, he’d become even more withdrawn in the last nine months. His dark eyes always looked a little haunted, a little sad. It was the loss of Kira. Twin bears had a unique bond, one even Axel couldn’t hope to understand. It would be better if he let himself grieve her loss. If he’d let himself feel anything. But Kade seemed to have inflicted his own brand of punishment upon himself. “I brought the last of the supplies up on my last run to town. Everything should be in place. All we need now are guests.”
When they’d decided to stay on the ridge, the brothers had come up with the idea to create an eco-tourism lodge that focused on hiking in the summer and backcountry skiing in the winter. It would be the first of its kind in Montana: rugged enough to appeal to the adventurous spirit, but cushy enough to be an upscale destination. It was the perfect compromise for the brothers. They may not be able to go home to Jackson Valley to the lives they’d left behind, but it wouldn’t stop them from creating new ones.
“It’s taken care of.” Axel smiled. “We have some registered guests coming later in the week, but you guys are going to love this…”
“What are we going to love?”
“Try to restrain your bear for a few days,” he said to Luke. “Because I secured a travel journalist from LA who’s going to write a feature on Grizzly Ridge for Lifestyles Magazine.”
“No shit?” That impressed Luke the way Axel knew it would.
“It’s true. And she’s going to be here in the morning with a guest. So seriously, rein in your bear.”
Luke grumbled and kicked the ground, but Axel knew he’d do as he was told. They may have chosen the ridge for its remoteness and ability to shift into their bear form whenever they needed to, but now that there would be humans around, everyone was going to have to be a lot more careful.