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My mission: Save my woman, guard the secret of the Spirit Bear, and take down the poachers.

My mission: Save my woman, guard the secret of the rare spirit bear, and take down the poachers.

Ryland -- I was tailing a gang of poachers, certain they’d lead me straight to their kingpin, when a stray arrow from a crossbow slammed into me. Pain lanced through me and everything faded to black. In that blur of unconsciousness, I could have sworn a pure white bear stood over me, calm as can be. When I opened my eyes again, a woman -- curvy and impossibly beautiful -- was watching me with the cutest look of mixed concern and distrust on her face.

Kimberly -- I thought I was alone on a tiny island off the coast of British Columbia until an arrow from a crossbow barely missed skewering me. With my dog Diego at my heels, I ran to hide in a maze of caves, my heart pounding. Crouched down in the dark, I listened in terror as voices and footsteps floated to me from outside. I prayed the shooters wouldn’t find the spirit bear that inhabited this place. When I finally crept back out into the daylight, I found I wasn’t the only target -- but the unconscious man lying in a pool of his own blood wasn’t talking. Victim or one of them?

WARNING: This Riptide action-adventure romance includes violence, abuse, coarse language, vigilante justice, and adult situations. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Enjoy!

Spirit bears (aka Kermode bears -- Ursus americanus kermodei) are a subspecies of the North American black bear with a rare recessive gene that makes their fur white or cream. Spirit bears are found only in the Great Bear Rainforest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest. Estimated spirit bear population numbers no more than 400 individuals. The First Nations communities who have lived in the region for thousands of years call the spirit bear moskgm’ol, or “white bear,” and view the animal as sacred.

Many thanks to BBC Wildlife for their Spirit Bear Guide.

Kimberly

I rinsed myself off and then stepped out of the shower, wrapping one towel around myself and using another to towel my hair dry. Still working on my hair, I opened the door and sauntered down the hall into the living room. “So who was at the door? A vacuum cleaner salesman or one of those darling guys in white shirts and badly fitting suits trying to save your soul?”

“Ummm.” Sasha cleared her throat noisily. “Actually, it’s my stepbrother, Matty. You remember me telling you about him?”

I let go of the second towel in favor of making sure the one wrapped around my torso was firmly in place. “Oh crap, I’m sorry. I’ll go get decent.” I could feel my face turning bright red as I whirled around and scurried down the hall to my bedroom.

Just what I needed -- to meet Sasha’s stepbrother without any clothes on. I choked down an insane urge to start giggling. I had the feeling once I started, I wouldn’t be able to stop. Hopefully I hadn’t flashed the poor guy with any body parts before I fled.

I pulled on a clean pair of jeans and a sweatshirt before blow-drying my hair. I needed to buy myself time to get over the embarrassment of waltzing practically naked into the living room.

I groaned at the thought of what he must think of me. Sasha had told me he was a bit of a maverick, ex-military turned crusader, running around trying to save the world.

Sounded like a nice enough guy, and Sasha adored him. A part of me envied the fact that both Sasha and her stepbrother had the financial security to let them do what they wanted with their lives. Unlike me, they were born into wealthy families. Although my salary as a conservation officer was decent enough, there wasn’t much left over at the end of the month. Life was expensive.

Putting the hair dryer down on the dresser, I grasped the door handle and took a deep breath. I opened the door and forced myself to walk down the hall to the living room as if I hadn’t just waltzed in there sporting a towel and nothing else. Matty was family, right? Family got to see you in your tattered jeans and Saturday sweats.

And with your soggy bath towel wrapped around you.

Sasha’s stepbrother was a bit of a mystery to me.

I’d never met him. I’d just heard stories about this crazy gonna-save-the-world guy that randomly showed up without prior warning. Sasha adored him because he’d run interference between her and her parents and managed to get them to back off when they wanted to marry her off to some country club guy in their jet set.

From what I’d gathered from Sasha’s stories, he belonged to a group of guys who didn’t always work within the law. I wasn’t quite sure how they went about that, but I suspected it paid to be rich and powerful enough to make people do what you want. He sounded like your typical rebel.

Plastering a smile on my face, I entered the living room at a sedate pace. “So where’s this famous stepbrother of yours?”

“Right here.” Sasha bounced to her feet, her eyes glowing happily as she swept her arm out to indicate the man lounging on the sofa beside her. “Matty, meet the sister of my heart, Kimberly.”

The man rose to his feet and turned to face me, extending his hand.

Taking the offered hand, I looked up and the smile froze on my face as I stared into those gorgeous blue eyes. “Ryland?”

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☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆5 out of 5 stars.

Diego Rules Poachers Drool !

Loved the start of The Brotherhood series !! It has loose ties to the Author’s other series called Riptide MC ! The characters Kimberly and Ryland are well written and a lot of fun to read. The storyline has real world implications in the animal poaching and for animals living in shelters, so please be careful if such stories cause you any emotional distress. The book has a lot of action both in and out of the “bedroom”. I can’t wait to read book 2. 5’s for an action packed read !. · Dianna Rule TX

Award winning author Anne Kane lives in the beautiful Okanagan Valley with a bouncy little rescue mutt(Merlin the Wonder Dog), a slightly larger rescue dog (Lexi the Aussie Shepherd) a cantankerous Himalayan cat, and too many fish to count. She has two handsome sons and seven adorable grandchildren. She’s always been fascinated by science fiction and fantasy so of course when she writes, she lets her imagination take over. The one thing the reader can always count on is that the main characters will live happily ever after, even if they have to defeat a few nasty aliens first.

When she's not busy writing the next great novel, she likes to kayak, hike, ride motorcycles, swim, skate, practice karate, play her guitar, sing and of course, read.

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Never go out and get drunk when you find out your boyfriend is a sleazy asshole.

I told my little sister that in high school when her boyfriend made a pass at her best friend. A very good piece of advice, but not one that I intended to follow, at least this time. I was starting to wonder about my tendency to pick assholes. My current, or should I say ex, made three in less than five years. Somehow, I’d thought Kurt was different, and it sucked to find out he wasn’t. I figured the best way to get even with the lying, cheating, son of a bitch was to go find me a sexy boy-toy to play with for the night.

Then make sure said sleazy asshole found out about it.

So off I went to the local biker bar to find me a boy-toy.