The Misfit and the Bear (The Shifter Games #1)

For the Shifters of Bear Hollow, survival is no game…

Grizzly shifter Oskar Warden only wants to make it through the winter without starving, just like the rest of his friends in the shifter town of Bear Hollow. Shifters of all types—wolf shifters, bear shifters, panther shifters, and more—have made it through decades of hard times here. But the full humans of nearby Gilt Hollow are making this year’s bleak winter even bleaker. The oppression the shifters are facing is worse than anything they’ve experienced before.

Just when Oskar thinks things can’t get any worse, an unexpected visit from one of the Gilt Hollow nobles forces him to choose between joining the Shifter Games or seeing his sister murdered before his eyes. With a heavy heart, Oskar agrees to join the Games, which will force him to fight like a feral animal merely for the entertainment of the full humans. Oskar has never felt more lonely in his life, until he discovers an underground resistance force, right in the middle of Gilt Hollow. And one of the people dedicated to resisting the dehumanization of shifters turns out to be none other than Zora Severson, the daughter of the most evil nobleman in Gilt Hollow.

At first, Oskar refuses to trust Zora. But the more he gets to know her, the more he realizes she might be the answer to all of the shifters problems—and to the loneliness he feels in his own heart. But just when things between them start heating up, Oskar is forced into a Shifter Games death match. His chances of survival seem bleak, but Zora has one last chance to save him. The only problem? No full human has ever stood up for a shifter, and the consequences for Zora will surely be severe.

But Zora has always felt like a misfit in Gilt Hollow anyway. Will she risk everything for love? And will she and Oskar have the chance to continue fighting for the resistance? Or is this one Game they won’t have the chance to win? Read this steamy, action-packed shifter romance to find out!

The Misfit and the Bear is the first book in Sloane Meyers’ Shifter Games Series, and can easily be read as a standalone book. Please note, this novel is intended for mature audiences and contains explicit love scenes as well as adult language.