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When pastry chef Annabeth Jones goes on the run from her abusive fiance, the small town of Bearpaw Ridge offers her a safe haven. Nestled at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, with friendly neighbors and a bakery/cafe that needs a new owner, it's the perfect place for her to start over. Firefighter and bear shifter Dane Swanson knows at once that kind, curvy Annabeth is his fated mate. She's also human, in a world where shifters must keep their existence secret.

Return to Bearpaw Ridge with this heartwarming collection of small-town shifter books! As the years go by, the next generation of shifters prepare to meet and fight for their fated mates.

Together in one collection for the first time - the first six books in the popular Bearpaw Ridge Firefighters series! Meet the Swanson brothers: five alpha-male bear-shifters who help protect their small, close-knit community as volunteer firefighters. Dane, Mark, Evan, Thor, and Ash are heroes looking for their fated mates, but the road to their happily ever after is filled with peril and adventure.

The Rocky Mountain Smokejumpers are an elite, all-shifter firefighter team with a taste for danger. When the odds look hopeless, these rugged shifters parachute into the untamed wilderness to conquer out-of-control wildfires. One by one, each member of the team must fight to claim their fated mates and protect them from peril.

This bundled set of novels and short stories features all of your favorite kinds of shifters - bears, wolves, sabertooth cats, and more - along with the blazing love stories and small-town charm that you've come to expect.

Fall in love with the Swansons - hot firefighters protecting their fated mates. This boxed set contains three full-length stand-alone Bearpaw Ridge Firefighters novels plus three never-before-published Bearpaw Ridge stories. The set includes: "A Wedding to Remember," featuring Ash and Nika, Smoke, featuring Tyler and Mary, Blaze, featuring Dimitri and Damaris, "Sophie's Christmas Present", featuring Sophie and Matt, Ember, featuring Margaret and Daniel, and "Christmas in July", featuring Hannah and Sam.

Firefighter Tyler Swanson can't believe his luck when he rescues someone from a burning home...and it's his old flame Mary Jacobsen. Then the heat between them ignites into a blaze and they realize that they're fated mates. Tyler offers to rebuild her house, determined to make a real home for himself, too.

The biggest story of her life could be her last...unless her mate can save her. Fanged peril Curvy journalist Caitlyn Roberts can’t believe her eyes. She and her boss at a popular paranormal investigations website have just received shocking footage of a local businessman turning into a giant beast! Things go bad in a hurry when the subject of the investigation decides to destroy the evidence...and her.

When smokejumper Carl Jensen’s parachute accident leaves him with a badly-hurt leg, he's forced to take shelter on a remote mountain ranch. The ranch's owner, a lush, curvy woman, intrigues him. He’d like nothing more than to keep her warm through the cold nights. Too bad Michelle wants nothing to do with him. Maybe that’s because she saw him shift from wolf to human. Or maybe because she guards a fragile heart.

Successful entrepreneur and jaguar shifter Maggie Ornelas is fearless and fiercely independent. She's spent her life successfully dodging her family's matchmaking efforts...until her heroism during a harrowing rescue from a raging forest fire makes the national news and draws unwelcome attention from her clan elders. Ambushed by her parents and the clan matriarch at the grand opening of her newest top-tier bakery in Denver, Maggie's handed an ultimatum....

Bear shifter Evan Swanson loves curvy women...but not commitment. When he rescues a woman and her infant niece from a hotel fire, he’s shocked to realize she’s his fated mate. Not only is she his bear’s wet dream, she’s the first woman who’s ever turned him down for a date. Steffi Tristan has been caring for baby Olivia since her sister and brother-in-law disappeared. When her niece turns into a bear cub before her eyes, Steffi knows it’s time to get help. Evan’s the most attractive man she’s ever met, but Steffi's spent a lifetime in her beautiful sister’s shadow.

He can protect her from anything...except himself. Bear shifter and smokejumper Mike Nakano is secretly in love with his friend and teammate, coyote shifter Kara Latrans. He's quiet, serious, and extremely reserved. She's bubbly, confident, and a notorious practical joker on their smokejumper team. Complicating things is a history of bad feelings between their different shifter lineages. As they face hardship and danger together, Mike is driven to protect the woman he wants as his mate - but can he save her from his own desires?

Her big, close-knit family and her hometown mean everything to bear shifter Hannah Swanson. As a devastating wildfire threatens Bearpaw Ridge, she meets and falls for a handsome firefighter who's traveled all the way from Australia to help save the town. But becoming his mate would mean making a new start halfway around the world, leaving everything and everyone Hannah loves.

Bear shifter and volunteer firefighter Rob Jacobsen-Swanson has been away from home for months. All he wants to do now is make it back to Bearpaw Ridge in time to celebrate Christmas with his big family. But fate has other plans. After he gets in a car accident in the middle of a raging blizzard, he finds himself stranded in a tiny cabin with a runaway bride who hates him on first sight.

Cade is everything Maggie’s never wanted: a rough-around-the-edges beer-drinking, growly bad boy with a hair-trigger temper. And shoulders a mile wide. And a sweet, tender center that he shows only to her. Cade Hunter's kisses are hot as cookies fresh out of the oven, and as sweet and spicy as gingerbread.

The Bearpaw Springs Resort is haunted by a vengeful ghost...or so local legends would have it. When a series of supernatural events terrorize the hotel's staff and guests and injure one of Sophie Markidis's shifter friends, the painfully shy, curvy Mythtrust News intern is compelled to investigate. She faces opposition from the hotel's owner and a ghost who seems to hold a grudge against shifters.

After a devastating fire nearly destroys bear shifter Elle Swanson's home, she's facing the prospect that the big family Christmas dinner isn't going to happen this year. As the Swanson clan matriarch, she's always taken care of everyone. Now, she's struggling to accept her mate Justin's and her family's offers to help resolve the crisis.

Cougar-shifter and single dad Lucas is an undercover game warden, hunting down wildlife poachers. After a painful divorce, he's stopped believing in love. Besides, fated mates are just a shifter fairy tale, right? Everything changes when he meets Malia, a feisty wolf-shifter girl. But she's the sheriff’s daughter, and he's currently undercover as a dirtbag poacher in a high-stakes investigation. He can't come clean with her...not without blowing his cover. Even worse, his cougar has roared to life, determined to claim her. Now he's torn between honor, duty, and his primal needs.

His curvy fated mate hides agonizing secrets. When a plane falls from the sky and crashes on wolf shifter Ethan Jacobsen’s ranch, the NTSB investigator who arrives is smart and sassy, with curves that Ethan longs to explore. She's a fascinating mix of contradictions. On the outside, she’s gutsy and in control. But on the inside, she’s vulnerable. Fragile. And hiding secrets that are tearing her apart.

Bear shifter Elle Swanson’s no stranger to heartbreak. She’s been widowed for many years. A second chance at romance? She’s not holding her breath. But at the most unexpected moment, love comes walking in. At a family wedding, she’s swept into the arms of tall cowboy Justin Long. Between his smoldering good looks and seductive caresses, she’s falling hard. Except for one big problem. Justin’s a sabertooth shifter. Elle knows they’re pure trouble.