Bear My Heart (Grayslake: More Than Mated Universe)

Ivy Fitzhugh is on the run with her best friend’s eighteen-month-old little girl, Bella. To save the toddler from the same fate as her now dead mother at the hands of Bella’s father, Ivy plans to take the little girl to a small bear clan near the Everglades in Florida. But fate and a broken-down, POS car have other plans.

Cullen MacAvoy is a part-time deputy sheriff and a full-time Enforcer who also makes a living crafting wooden furniture. He recognizes Ivy as his fated mate, but he wants nothing to do with it. He doesn’t want to end up like the other males in his clan, led around by their mates as if they didn’t have minds of their own.

No, he’d help the woman and her adorable little girl, find out what she was hiding, and let her go on her way.

He wouldn’t let his lonely bear have any say about it. But when Bella’s father shows up, Cullen must protect the woman he loves, at all costs.