Visit Fate Valley, where shifters, romance, and intrigue come together …This entertaining collection features five stories about bear shifters meeting their mates, with mysteries, challenges, and steamy encounters along the way. Here’s what you’ll find inside:Hero Bear: Sunshine Blackthorn and firefighter Harrison Cole must discover who set fire to a chapel in the middle of a wedding.Holiday … wedding.
Holiday Bear: Knitting artisan Layla Watson and real estate investor Liam Nash are caught up in a Christmastime murder investigation.
Celebration Bear: Schoolteacher Cici Anderson and pyrotechnician Thorian Reed have a firecracker courtship while investigating a 4th of July explosion.
Candy Bear: Journalist Samantha Cooper and confectioner Benjamin Darling uncover secrets from Fate Valley’s past.
Baker Bear: Lawyer Donika Devon and baker Grayson Baxter unravel a dangerous plot.
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I have each books as individuals as wells
Now they are in one easy collections. Can’t get better than that !
This collection is worth reading.
I loved the storytelling + the characters
The storytelling + the character’s build were awesome!
Fate Valley’s Mystery box: 3/21/18 4 stars
A favorite location with favorite characters and new from a favorite author. This is a boxed set deal for all.
Hero Bear:
A new series from the author. Fate Valley is another integrated shifter/human town. Sunshine travels there from Fate Mountain for her BFF’s wedding. She is happy for her friend but not mate hunting for herself–until she has a couple too many at the bachelorette party and the girl’s talk her into completing the mate.com profile. Wouldn’t ya know she found her 100% match right in Fate Valley? A hot fireman grizzly matching her animal.
The wedding is interrupted by a fire in the chapel–so not only has she found her mate, but a mystery of who set the fire.
The author introduces us to some more hot shifters who will probably be the next to find their mates. Will they have a mystery to solve as well?
Holiday Bear:
Holiday Bear by Scarlett Grove 4 star due date ?
She’s a master weaver. She has moved to Fate Valley to start over after a disappointing relationship. The Holiday Fair drew her and she made extra products to display and sell. Just before it started she and after a couple glasses of wine, she decided to sign up for a trustworthy shifter on mate.com.
He’d been waiting for a 100% match for years with no luck. Then they matched. The two hit it off. Their relationship is sweet and steamy. What any woman would want. But could she trust him?
When things seem to be going well they were interrupted by a….well you’ll need to read it.
I really enjoyed this story. It was touching and fun.
Celebration Bear:
Thorian is new to Fate Mountain and in no hurry find a mate–until loneliness hit him just in time to get notice of his 100% fated mate match. Cici had been waiting for a shifter match like her friends had found. And what a match. Her tiny curvy person is matched with a super hunk with an amazing job. They hit it off immediately at their first meeting. Too bad murder had to intrude. The gruesome crime frightened her and Thorian stayed with her to make her feel safer. So begins a fast courtship and bonding to friends and lovers.
This is a short sweet love with likable characters and a HEA.
Candy Bear:
Benjamin had been waiting for years to find his mate. He watched so many of his friends around him settle into happy families. Hope was getting low for him. Until Samatha came to write an article about the historical event in town. She had no family and work was her all. At a low point, she gave in and completed the Ap for Mate.com, knowing nothing would come of it. Until it did. Benjamin made eye contact across the square. She didn’t give in right away. He was so hot. Eventually, she gave in and met him.
She lived and worked in NYC. He had his candy business in Fate Valley. She had no family experience and was a human. He had grown up in a loving family. What could they have in common?
The mystery around town. The history of her family. The strange goings on around town. Could these bring them together or keep them apart?
Another story of shifter love. The couple is sweet together, the conflict limited, however, the HEA is what we all look for at the end.
Baker Bear:
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.
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Suspenseful and entertaining collection…..
This has been a suspenseful and entertaining set of novellas and novels, which I have read individually and are now available in a boxset collection..
There are a number of elements to these stories which makes the premise and delivery original and interesting: the dating online agency which all the shifters utilize to identify their mates is a fun concept; the fact that although the majority of the books are short, steamy reads there is plenty of pace and plot development; along with the angst there is plenty of humor, which provides light relief from the drama; and perhaps most important of all there are a relatable and interesting group of characters who star and have cameo roles throughout the series.
The alpha bear shifters are a sexy bunch whether they are a firefighter, pyrotechnic electrician or a baker they all protect those that they love; and the women in this series are strong and smart and a perfect match for their bear mates….
This series is a great mix of intrigue and romance…. what a treat now that they are all together in one place….I received an advanced copy of this boxset from the author.
Each book in this seires is wonderful!!! The male leads ( the yummy bears) are strong, loving, and romantic while their female mates are independent smart women who just want love. Each story has a wonderful mystery to solve and a heart felt HEA.
Fate Valley Mysteries Collection #1-#5
Release Date: #AlreadyReleased
Author: Scarlett Grove
Reviewer: Ingrid Stephanie Jordan
#5Stars
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Title: Hero Bear #1
Sunshine Blackthorn is a Grizzly Bear Shifter who lives on Fate Montain. After going to the institute, she started a career making websites. Sunshine flew to Missouri for her BFF’s wedding at the Fate Rock Chapel in The Lake of the Fates, Fate Valley. At the Bachelorette’s party Sunshine was talked into doing Mate.com and guess what? You got it she found her 100% match.
Harrison Cole is a Grizzly Bear Shifter who is also a Firefighter. The day he went into the burning building with a beam hit’em sending him to the hospital he realized life was short he needed to find his true mate before it he didn’t care now he does. So he applied to Mate.com but there was nothing for him, maybe tomorrow.
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Title: Holiday Bear #2
Layla Watson is a thirty two old human, who moved from Kansas to Lake of the Fates. A fresh new start owning “Layla’s Spin and Knit.” Layla was a master spinner and knitter, well known in the industry she was the best in the country. Layla heard a lot about a dating app that matched humans with shifters called Mate.com! After many weird questions she was done filling out her “Spinner Girl” profile.
Liam Nash is a Bear Shifter who has always been called Holiday Bear. He just loves the holidays especially Christmas. Every Christmas he open a Christmas Market where anyone can buy a booth to sell their crafts. This year was very special to him Mate.com found his 100% Fated Mate. Nothing could ruin it until he opened the broom closet?
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Title: Celebration Bear #3
Cici Anderson is a human who is at Sunshines wedding, she has the saying down pat “Always a Bridesmaid Never a Bride” of coarse she’s melon colly. She’s been with Mate.com for a while now and not one 100% match. She was never going to get a mate. When her phone buzzes with her 100% match she’s ready to faint right then and there. Nothing like a first date on New Years Eve.
Thorian Reed is a Bear Shifter also an
Electrician and a Pyrotechnician yep, music and fireworks was his 1st job at Fate Valley Resort. Everyone called Celebration Bear because he loved to celebrate of every from holidays, parties, birthdays even funerals. He just came back to Fate Valley when his grandfather died leaving Thorian his house. Being an electrician on call he was sent to a ridiculously crazed family estate. Where he couldn’t get out fast enough. That’s it he decided he needs a mate, so he started Mate.com will he get his 100% match.
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Title: Candy Bear #4
Samantha Cooper is Human writing for
‘The Historic Times Magazine’ which is a international. Being an orphan she did a DNA to see what famous person she was related to. Turns out to be the man who built the largest reservoir in the world where The Lake of the Fates is. Deciding to go there to research and write, Samantha found out that the founder, Ambrose Valentine Morgan was an evil man or was he? She would find out! Thinking of her loneliness especially with Valentine’s Day, she decided to apply to Mate.com to find her a shifter just for a week?
Benjamin Darling aka: Candy Bear is a Bear Shifter who owns Fate Valley Confection which was handed down from father to father as well as her expertise. Being that it’s almost Valentine’s Day he is sad he was going to be alone again. Again another Valentine’s Day is coming up he has nothing from Mate.com everything below 100%, which is unacceptable, is today the big day?
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Title: Baker Bear #5
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.
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