USA Today best-selling author Yvette Hines brings you another journey into her popular Den County world.

Ebony Scrooge has a harsh past filled with rejection and deception that she has spent most of her adult life attempting to forget. Over a decade of pursuing nothing but higher advancement in her career, she purposely left no time for dating, playing, socializing, or anything but work, work, work.

When corruption and greed force her to step away from the path she was on and forge a new course, she quickly realizes she may be out of her element. Taking the advice of her best friend, Ebony is persuaded to take a night to enjoy passion of the physical nature. However, she could never have planned for the man who came her way.

Dainton Armel has enjoyed being an unattached and unmated wear-bear thoroughly. He has made a practice of keeping far away from entanglements that would cause him to settle down. But, when his bear detects the scent of a woman he can’t ignore, he quickly realizes he may be dragged in too deep.

One night of passion between the sheets with a beguiling, shrewd, and cantankerous woman was what he expected. What he got was a set-up by his bear with a woman the beast within him was all too ready and willing to claim.

Two strangers agree to a night of lust, but what they ended up with was a bond that will take them from city to county and a future neither can prepare for.

Note: Follow-up to these characters is in Hansel's Bear.