Prime Arctic predator and nomad of the sea ice and tundra, the polar bear endures as a source of wonder, terror, and fascination. Humans have seen it as spirit guide and fanged enemy, as trade good and moral metaphor, as food source and symbol of ecological crisis. Eight thousand years of artifacts attest to its charisma, and to the fraught relationships between our two species. In the White Bear, we acknowledge the magic of wildness: it is both genuinely itself and a screen for our imagination. Ice Bear traces and illuminates this intertwined history. From Inuit shamans to Jean Harlow lounging on a bearskin rug, from the cubs trained to pull sleds toward the North Pole to cuddly superstar Knut, it all comes to life in these pages. With meticulous research and more than 160 illustrations, the author brings into focus this powerful and elusive animal. Doing so, he delves into the stories we tell about Nature—and about ourselves—hoping for a future in which such tales still matter.

What do you get when a hot-as-puck hockey-playing polar bear shifter and a sexy cougar shifter elementary school teacher with a frozen heart decide to fake date? A mess. Burke As the first captain of the Atlantic City Devil Birds in the newly formed Paranormal Hockey League, my goal is simple: don’t screw up. Oh, play my best and save up money for the future, too. When my career is over, I plan to take my polar bear shifter self back to Canada, resume my teaching career, find a wife, and have some kids. Not on my to-do list—fall for a sexy cougar shifter who just happens to be my coach’s little sister. Kendall I’m fine being single and living my best life here in New Jersey. I have my family and my students. What else do I need? My very brief and disastrous marriage to my sociopathic squirrel shifter college sweetheart is all the proof I need that I am better off unattached. My family and friends keep trying to fix me up with any guy they find and lately their focus is on the handsome new captain of my brother’s hockey team. We decide to play along and fake a relationship to stop the matchmaking. But fake dating soon turns into fake dating with benefits and genuine feelings. Our dreams and goals are taking us in different directions. Can we compromise to make what is supposed to be fake blossom into something real? Sexy Pucking Polar Bear is a shifter hockey romcom full of humor, heart, and heat. If you want to laugh, sigh, and swoon, not necessarily in that order, with funny, sexy shifters, this is the book for you!

Specialist Amanda Sumner is one of the first to make contact on the Earth-like planet Harp and discovers she's the only Earthling, who can hear the trees sing in the strange forest. Determined to remain and learn more of the planet’s secrets, Amanda sets out to become part of the elite Guild there... But there is a secret involving some Guild members—one that could get her killed. Shifter Rhodry de Mendoza wants the Earthlings off his planet before they destroy it—even if that means denying what he feels for the fierce and lovely Amanda. The pair is thrown together in what becomes a fight for their lives. And they might just lose everything—including each other—in their battle for the right to live in peace. Each book in the Shifter Planet series is STANDALONE: * Shifter Planet * Shifter Planet: The Return

Three shifters walk into a bar… After a few drinks, the black leopard shifter says, “I met my mate at the Middlemarch Ball. She wanted a one-night fling—one perfect night of passion, she said. One look was all I needed to know she was my fated mate. My Emily is a human, and she had no intention of taking a second chance on love.” “That’s nothing,” the dragon shifter retorted. “I had only one use for women, but my human mate had a long-term crush on me. Talk about determination. We ended up working on an investigation together—a fake engagement thing—and haven’t been apart since.” The leopard and the dragon turned to the polar bear. “I met my lady at a train station,” the bear shifter shared. “She came for a vacation in our small town, and she never left.” He grinned. “She calls me her alpha male, and I call her my fish-out-of-water.” You’ll love this paranormal shapeshifter romance box set because it contains sassy women who know what they want and strong, alpha men who will protect them to the end. Oh, and a little humor, a few secrets, and some danger and suspense to keep things interesting. Shifter Shenanigans contains: My Scarlet Woman, Middlemarch Shifters book 1 Blue Moon Dragon, Dragon Investigators book 1 Fiona’s Mates, Churchill Polar Bears book 1.

Welcome to the Barvale where these four polar bear shifters need to find their curvy girl mates in order to remain part of the clan! Start reading this complete urban fantasy paranormal romance series today! She's got a thing for bad boys, and he's as bad as they come! Bowie Atiqtalaaq was new to Barvale, but not to the prejudices of man and Shifter alike. He'd heard the vicious slurs against him for the way he'd been conceived for most of his life. Keeping everyone at bay is a full-time job, but with his reputation for being wild and brash, Bowie never expected to care about what anyone else thought of him ever again. Until he laid eyes on her. Roxanne Winters, the legendary ice queen herself, journeys to Barvale during the Holiday Lights Festival to seek rights for her Skulk to run on Clan lands during the winter solstice. Her father, Alpha Fox of their Skulk, is depending on her to act with the grace and flawless manners that had been pounded into her brain since birth to get the rights for their annual mating celebration. Will Roxanne be the good girl Daddy always told her to be, or will she let her hair down and go wild with naughty Polar Bear Shifter, Bowie, her guide for the week? Find out if opposites really do attract in this Barvale Clan tale! Keywords: bear shifter, polar bear shifter series, love at first sight, alpha bear hero, bear clan romance, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy bear shifter mates, friends to lovers, rejected love, unrequited love, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, shifter clan fated mates series, black bear shifter mates ebook, paranormal romance series, shifter brothers fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha bear hero, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom, romcom series

Welcome to the Barvale where these four polar bear shifters need to find their curvy girl mates in order to remain part of the clan! Start reading this complete urban fantasy paranormal romance series today! He wants to claim his mate, but this female is hard to catch! Maya Osborn has had a lot of heartache in her life, and she isn't in the market for any more. Especially not from a Polar Bear Shifter who speaks before he thinks. With her step-mother recently married, Maya is suddenly in charge of their florist shop and she finds herself in over her head. It seems someone has taken out a loan in the business' name and the bank wants its money or else she will lose everything. Who can she turn to for help in her time of need? Tonic Nanouk has been lusting after Maya since the day he landed in Barvale, New Jersey from his small Alaska Clan. He knew in his heart that the small female was his fated mate, but so far she's been resistant to his charm. Okay, so he was a little rough around the edges, but what did a Bear have to do to get some attention around here? When Maya gets into financial trouble, Tonic offers her a way out. It's his one chance to show her they might be polar compounds, but together their bond is stronger than anything. Will she take a chance on him? Find out in this next installment of the Barvale Clan Tales. Keywords: polar bear shifter, polar bear shifter series, love at first sight, alpha bear hero, bear clan romance, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy bear shifter mates, friends to lovers, rejected love, unrequited love, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, shifter clan fated mates series, polar bear shifter mates ebook, paranormal romance series, shifter brothers fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha bear hero, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom, romcom series

Welcome to the Barvale where these four polar bear shifters need to find their curvy girl mates in order to remain part of the clan! Start reading this complete urban fantasy paranormal romance series today! Four Polar Bear Shifters from the wilds of Alaska have moved to our South Jersey town of Barvale. Inside this collection is books 1-4 in the Barvale Clan Tales: Polar Opposites Polar Outbreak Polar Compound Polar Curve These sexy Shifters desperately long to settle down as permanent members of the Barvale Clan so they can finally have a place to call home. Time is running out. The terms of their arrangement dictate that without a solid invitation from the Barvale Clan Alpha, the quartet must return to their previous Clan where they were treated as nothing more than outsiders. Hated and feared by those around them. There’s just one small problem. The Barvale Alpha has made it clear that unless they get better control of their Polar Bears, he will not take them in. To do that, the four Polars must find their one true mates. It is the only way to settle the wild beasts inside of them! Will fate deliver their perfect mates before time runs out? Keywords: polar bear shifter, polar bear shifter series, love at first sight, alpha bear hero, bear clan romance complete series, pnr anthology, bear shifter boxed set, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy bear shifter mates, friends to lovers, rejected love, unrequited love, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, shifter clan fated mates series, polar bear shifter mates ebook, paranormal romance series, shifter brothers fated mate series complete, curvy heroine romance, curvy girl reads, bbw romance, alpha bear hero, instant love, romantic comedy, PNR romcom, romcom series