Bear shifter Alphonso shunned his curvy mate Tamar to protect her from his dark past. . .but when he discovers he is the father of her baby, will he take the risk in order to raise their child?

Always looking over his shoulder for enemies, Alphonso pushed curvy Tamar away after their one, blazing hot night together. “I’m not relationship material, Tam. Don’t get stars in your eyes.”

Only that one night resulted in a secret child, a beautiful baby girl Tamar has been hiding in plain sight for six months. Waiting patiently for him to see the goshdarnit light already. When he discovers her deception, Alphonso knows he has a choice to make. Continue to allow his past to dictate his future, or take a chance on true love and family?

Tamar isn’t certain her childhood love Al will ever see reason—she knows he did some bad stuff. Especially when that bad stuff shows up in the form of a curvy, exotic ex-girlfriend looking for protection.

Tamar isn’t going to roll over and play dead, though. She’s Head Sow in these parts and no one- not the mysterious beauty, not her father’s disapproval, and certainly not the enemies waiting in the shadows to strike—are going to claim what belongs to her without a bloody fight.