Can a big-city lawyer and a small-town baker find love in Fate Valley?An unexpected return …Donika Devon’s career has taken her to Harvard and the most powerful law firm in New York City. When a shocking discovery at work leaves her life in shambles, she has nowhere to go but back home to Fate Valley … where she signs up for a shifter-human dating website.An unconventional courtship …… unconventional courtship …
Grayson Baxter loves good food, baking, and running Fate Valley Cafe and Bakery. The only thing his life needs is his mate, so he’s overjoyed when he learns that he and Donika have been matched. Even sharing their first date with her eccentric relatives doesn’t faze him.
A recipe for danger
While Grayson is taking part in a baking reality show, someone is hunting Donika … someone who wants to stop her from talking about what happened in New York. Before she and her mate can start a life together that’s as sweet as one of Grayson’s desserts, they’ll have to find out who’s responsible. Can Grayson win the contest and keep his mate safe while solving the case?
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*WARNING* story contains explicit sexual content
This story is okay. It has had guys, good guys, and romance. It’s a sweet story that encourages us to never give up on dreams or happiness. The thing is….I think it’s just okay. There was nothing in this story that really keep me reading. I put this down several times without a problem, not wondering what would happen next. There was no real world building, no great descriptions, it was was just events and sex.
I enjoyed Donika and Grayson. I see Donika everyday in the lawyer friends I have, although none of my friends have had to deal with the kind of boss she had. I admit to finding it disconcerting for a strong ex-military type to be so into baking, but why not? Kneading dough is great therapy. Real reality cooking shows on the other hand should be so eventful.
Enjoyed reading this book.
A great coming home story! What a nice mix of suspense, romance and small home town closeness! This story has a strong female character Donica, and a man who is losing hope of ever finding his true mate. I thought the process her boss used against her was too much too soon, and because she was such a good lawyer, there had to be some recourse available to her, some way to fight the system, but that was part of the plot so I can see how it worked out in the story’s favor. Donica and Grayson eventually make a great team and support the theory that opposites attract. Where she is kind of cold and isolated, he has ties to friends and family. The story reads easily and flows. There are parts where details about baking are so heavy….I’m not a baker….but overall, the book is interesting and has some exciting parts.
ARC – I voluntarily offered to review this book with no obligations and my opinions are honest
Donika is fired, and she knows something criminal about her firm
The firm is trying to shut down Donika
Donika escape to Fate Valley.
Grayson, Baker Bear, is really ready to meet his fated mate.
Will Grayson be able to keep Donika safe ?
I loved the storytelling + the characters
The storytelling + the character’s build were awesome!
Feel The Love…
Well it’s about time!!!!!
Grayson (Baker Bear) has been baking wedding cakes for all his friends for a very long time. When is someone going to bake one for him? May not be too long off if he can convince the savvy NY lawyer that she belongs in Fate Valley with him. With his expertise in the oven that may not be too far off, especially when Donika starts to feel the love.
Donika was born and raised in Fate Valley, but always felt she had to prove herself t the world, her family, but especially herself. She has accomplished a lot, she graduated top of her class at Harvard and is a very successful lawyer at the most prestigious law firm in NY. When she finally realizes the truth of what has been going on at the law firm, she is left destitute with no choice but to return to Fate Valley.. Problem is she doesn’t remember what led to her altercation with her boss. Then Grayson comes into her life and she is reminded what she has really longed for all her life…
There is a lot of mystery in this Fate Valley story, but most of all you can feel the love…..
I’ve read all the the Fate Valley Mysteries so far and this is one of my favorites. Donika is a big-time New York lawyer, defending a multi-billion dollar food company in a lawsuit. She’s working herself ragged, not eating or sleeping and she’s started blacking out. She’s afraid she is seriously ill. She’s stressed to the max and discovers something very wrong with the corporation she’s defending, causing her to faint. When she comes to, she goes to speak to her boss and let’s just say things get drastically worse. So, she heads back home to Fate Valley. Her family is a total hoot, especially Grandma Pearl. Grayson owns the bakery in town and just happens to be Donika’s 100% match and a contestant in the Great American Bake-Off being filmed in Fate Valley. This book was wonderful, full of adventure, men in black, and even murder. The level of intimacy and trust that Donika and Grayson share is heart-warming. Whether you have or haven’t read any of the other Fate Valley Mysteries, this is one you really shouldn’t miss. I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
The fifth book in this series and I hope there is going to be another book I have enjoyed reading this book from the very first page. This is Donika Devon and Grayson Baxter’s story there is drama, suspense, an evil man. I would recommend this series.
Title: Baker Bear
Series: Fate Valley Mysteries #5
Release Date: #AlreadyReleased
Author: Scarlett Grove
Reviewer: Ingrid Stephanie Jordan
Serial: Standalone, No Cliffhanger
Genre: #PRN #BearShifters
#5Stars
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Another mystery needs to be solved. Ms. Grove takes us on the ride of our life. Definitely a Must Read!
Donika Devon is human working her dream job the last four year for a law firm in New York City. In fact she gets fired because as her boss says “You chose a very inopportune time to grow a conscience.” How can she defend someone like
Trans-Food Corporation when they are guilty of all charges, it was inhuman. No way could she defend them let alone let it go. As she is escorted to the elevator she blacks out. Donika been so busy with her case’s through the years she was almost skin and bones, now she was having strange blackouts, they’re getting worse. Going home to Fate Mountain was her only option. Maybe she can energize and mange her health with her crazy family.
Grayson Baxter is a Bear Shifter, he has always loved to bake, so it was only natural he owns Fate Valley Cafe and Bakery. He wants to win the Great American Bake-off, with five master bakers from around the country who will judge the completion. Greyson is nervous and excited he wants to win. Especially now after five long years of waiting he’s finially found his 100% match.
I have voluntarily read this book and my comments here are my own and honest.
Bears and baking and lawyers? Ok!
Another quick and interesting read. The conflict was a bit vague but it was a decent story.
Donika was an attorney for a big firm in New York who had a case that she just could not defend even though she was told to defend them, or she’ll be fired. Now, she is out of a job, they have taken away her apartment, seized her bank accounts and her ex-boss is trying to have her killed. She heads back home to Fate Valley & her family. When she gets there, she happens to sign up with mate.com. She gets a 100% match with a bear shifter named Grayson Baxter aka Baker Bear. Grayson has been waiting for his mate for 5 years. He is thrilled to finally meet her, but he also has the bake-off competition happening. This was a very exciting read.
You will love this exciting, funny, suspenseful, thrilling, and crazy hot shifter Romance!
A copy of this book was provided to me with no requirements for a review. I voluntarily read and reviewed this book.
Mystery, humour and romance ….
This paranormal shifter romance focuses on Donika a smart Defence Lawyer and Grayson a baker and all round strong and sexy shifter..
The two main characters narrate their sides of the story which is an intriguing tale of unethical corporate practices and murder….Donika and Grayson are fated to be together but there is so much going on in their lives keeps getting in the way from Bake offs to amnesia and everything in between…
Fate Valley and its inhabitants seems to attract more than its fair share of criminal activity and mystery …as a local I might have been tempted to move out except for all those gorgeous shifters that so often save the day..I love the fact that characters from previous books pop up in cameo roles throughout the series…
There is mystery, humour and romance all of which made this an enjoyable and absorbing read.. ..I received an advanced copy of this book from the author…
Donika was first in her class, worked harder than any other lawyer in the prestigious Law Firm, and the first to be in big trouble sending her home to Fate Valley and family. During a weak moment, she signed up for the shifter dating site, mate.com. Known to be a sure thing. If you got a match.
Greyson came home from war wanting peace. The best way for him was to start a bakery. He’s become well known more than locally. Yet, what he wants most hasn’t happened. Finding his mate. He’d been signed up on the Mate.com for years. He’d watched many of his friends find their happiness and then it happened. He and Donika. There were problems. Location. Family. Secrets. Trust. Yet, they were a 100% match. There was nothing he wouldn’t do to protect and have her. When people around her starting getting shot he and his bear have to take action.
Donika is a motivated person who has to reevaluate her life and work as her only priority. He is a sweetheart with patience, tenderness, just enough alpha to be tempting, with her as his priority. Can he persuade her to stay? Will he have to change his plans? He has skills besides the ones in the kitchen that speak well for his chances. The mystery is played well throughout the book, however, the conclusion is a bit fast. I thoroughly enjoyed the story. One of my favorites in Fate Valley.
I voluntarily reviewed this advanced reader copy and I have not been compensated in any way.
As usual interesting and entertaining read. I do have mixed feelings when it come to Donika. She came off a bit snobbish and I didn’t like that she lied to her family. I was also kinda disappointed in the plot twists I was expecting it to be more than what it was. Overall enjoyable read looking forward to the next book in the series. I voluntarily read and review this ARC no minority compensation was received the opinions I have expressed are my own.
Grayson better know to his friends as Baker bear has been waiting 5 years for his mate and is lonely. Donika is in trouble and need help and someone to care about her they find what they need in each other. This book is drama filled, heart felt, and sweet all tied up with a murder mystery and a wonderful HEA