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“Now you’re exactly where you’re supposed to be,” Asher said, leaning forward and pressing a kiss to my lips. “Happy.”

What happens next?

As you can tell, this is either a jumping off point for a brand new evolution of the Ursa Shifter series, or it’s the end of it. Basically sales will dictate how that goes. I’d love to write Jesse and Roxy’s story and Ursula’s too, as well as just stories of girls openly finding their sleuth, rather than all the secrecy. It’s in your hands, gentle readers! Hype the series up and get people reading, otherwise yeah, it means I need to hang this particularly hat up and look at other shifters to write.

Holly’s book is coming. It’s looking like December 2024/January 2025 at this point.

Thank you to all of the readers who’ve made this series the success it has been. I appreciate it more than I can put into words.

PART II

Baby Bears

CHOOSE THE BEARS

SAM HALL

Choose The Bears

Choose The Bears © Sam Hall 2024

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Edited by Christine George

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The characters and events depicted in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Trigger Warning

Trigger Warning

My reader group voted on the content of this novella, no doubt expecting some cute, easy story about Natalie and her sleuth’s children as babies.

Um… yeah, I can’t write that.

I have one son (who I love to distraction), but his birth and my adjustment to becoming a mother was HARD, despite doing everything I could to prepare for it. I had treatment resistant PND and PNA that got me as close to suicide as I’ve ever come. I have definitely pulled my punches in this story, but you’re gonna see a bit of mental health representation in this story.

One really important note: I couldn’t successfully breastfeed, and my birth and child rearing story is not yours, so you will find some stuff glossed over, is not accurate, especially when the sleuth starts adjusting things to help Nat. Don’t use a short story as a how to guide nor as a roadmap to predict how child rearing will go. I am very much pro-mother doing what she needs to, to raise her children happy and healthy, so if your preferences aren’t reflected here, that’s not supposed to be a critique of what you are doing/did.

These are some triggers to keep in mind when reading:

Post natal depression and anxiety, but I’ve put you in at the ‘getting help’ stage, not dragged you through chapters of triggering stuff where possible

The story deals with the early days of caring for two babies, so if pregnancy and child rearing are a trigger, especially struggling with it, you might want to steer clear of this one

Breastfeeding struggles

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