Can I gamble on a second chance at love with an irresistibly hot bear shifter?Adrian… Adrian Manor.The father of my child, the only man I have ever loved…His wild secret pulled us together but also tore us apart.He is more irresistibly magnetic now…I don’t even know how that is possible.Taller, more chiseled and muscular.Those lips. Those eyes… deep, warm, twinkling chocolate brown eyes … warm, twinkling chocolate brown eyes that melt me to my core.
My daughter’s eyes. The Manor family eyes.
Hiding dark secrets most would never understand.
And my secret … I have been hiding my daughter from him and his clan.
Despite my fiery temper and stubbornness, I know I’m in danger now and need his protection more than ever.
But he wants to be more to me than just my protector.
I can feel it in the intensity of his eyes and the electricity of his touch that he still wants to claim me.
What will happen when happen when he finds out my daughter is his and I hid it from him and his clan?
Will he step up and be the protector my daughter and I so desperately need?
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Ariel was looking forward to a girls weekend to celebrate a friends bachelorette party. Then her ex bumps into her and it is all down hill from there. Adrien was in shock to bump into the only girl who broke up with him. Add in a secret daughter, a greedy ex friend and a ex girlfriend and this book gets really interesting.
College buddies and a party – what’s not to like? Throw-in a romance that ended before secrets could be revealed back then does add some problems for Ariel and Arian’s chance encounter. How do you tell the woman you love that you’re a bear shifter? How do you tell the man you love more than anything that your pregnant? These were the issues that drove them apart at the end of college. Adrian went to Europe minus Ariel while Ariel had to come up a different life plan for herself and her daughter.
The weekend in Vegas brings with it another friend of theirs from their college days – Calvin. Ariel briefly had a thing with Calvin but broke it off soon after. Calvin didn’t like that and he’s no longer friends with Adrian either. Calvin is dangerous and Ariel and Adrian soon find this out. Ariel has to ask Arian for help when her daughter is taken. Both of their secrets are BIG but they have to get their daughter back before they confront all the feelings they felt and are feeling now.
How does a bear shifter deal with a poacher? What’s a woman to do with a scorned man from her past? What other obstacles are the two going to have to face? Is a HEA even possible for these two? Get a copy of this book and read for a good dose of love, intrigue, danger, and forgiveness.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review. This is a well written story and I loved the characters. This one is worth your time and effort. I look forward to reading more of Scarlett Ray’s books. I encourage everyone to get this one.
My Second Chance Bear by Scarlett Ray is a second chance shifter love story. In this book, Ariel Daniels a professional photographer and vlogger and her Stanford rich ex-boyfriend Adrian Manor meet up again at one of their college friend’s bachelorette weekend get together. During this weekend Ariel and Adrian remember all the feelings they shared before which allows them to rekindle their love. This story was both sweet and sensual with some steamy love scenes. I loved reading this perfect second times the charm love story with a shifter twist. My Second Chance Bear is a sensually sweet shifter love story.
Imagine breaking up with your college boyfriend because you were pregnant, He was going to Europe, and you knew he didn’t want anything serious, wanted to date other women while he was away, and had made his views on children very clear. 10 years later you and your best friends go on a vacation for a bachelorette party weekend and see him. This is what happens to Ariel. She is having fun with her friends, and Adrian shows up. Not only that, but another friend from college, Calvin, who she had a brief affair with at a low point in her life. Adrian and Calvin who were friends in college don’t seem to like each other now, and there is something creepy about Calvin. They both come on to her, and she finds out Calvin is a poacher. Hunts for big and unusual game. Ariel is thrown into a world of rich, spoiled people, and has to sink or swim. And does she have a brief fling with Adrian then go home to the child she had with him. Or does she try to re-establish their relationship and tell him about her daughter. And what about creepy Calvin. And Adrian has kept secrets from her throughout their entire past relationship. There are so many twists to this story. It was riveting.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This is a well written book with strong characters and an entertaining story line. The author does a great job building the story and pulling you in with all the secrets and the sizzling hot chemistry between Adrian and Ariel. What happens when the secrets come out? I was hooked from start to finish reading their story and would recommend this book.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of this book. All opinions in this review are my own and freely given.