Hare Today Bear Tomorrow (Mating Call Dating Agency, #1)

by Lynn Red

  The cords in Garnet’s neck grew taut. She felt her chest constrict and couldn’t help herself from lifting her hips to meet her bear with every thirsty, desperate thrust. “I can’t stop,” he moaned into her ear. She tightened again around his thickness, almost taunting him.

  “Then don’t,” Garnet said, staring straight into Stacy’s eyes. “After all, we got plenty of time for this, right?”

  He drove his fists into the mattress, threw his head back, and as the two of them climaxed together, their breath matching and their hearts beating in time, he let out a roar that was sure to disturb the neighbors, but just made Garnet feel him even more deeply than she could ever imagine.

  Surges of white heat, followed by cool prickling waves coursed through her, and as her body seemed to draw to a single point of light centered right where Stacy was inside her, as deep as he could get, and pulsing over and over, she just gave up to the pleasure, gave up to her shuddering.

  “And now I’m hungry,” Stacy said a few minutes after they’d collapsed into a heap of arms, legs, fur and claws. He lifted his hand and flexed it as his fingernails turned human again, and kissed the receding fur on Garnet’s neck.

  She laughed softly. “Yeah, well, you know what they say about rabbits, right?”

  “You eat a lot of hay?”

  With a playful punch on his arm, Garnet rolled the big bear onto his back and slid her legs around either side of him. She rubbed her sex against his, and as soon as he stirred to life, she slipped him back inside. This time though, there wasn’t any thrusting. She just settled her weight down until he was all the way in her, and their bodies felt like they’d grown together.

  “If you really want me for a mate, you’re gonna have to get used to this,” she whispered, kissing his neck and nuzzling him gently.

  “Deal,” Stacy whispered, returning her kiss, and brushing her fallen hair back behind Garnet’s ear. “God is it ever a deal.”

  9

  “Hey look here,” Dora said, holding up a postcard from Ohio. “I guess your latest match worked out pretty well.”

  Eve poked her head out from the back room where she’d been busily reorganizing her file folders. It was a perpetual activity with her, and never quite seemed to finish. Someday though, she thought, someday she’d actually have all her prospective matches in alphabetical order. By species, of course.

  “Oh yeah?” she wiped the dust off her hands and took a sip of Dora’s coffee. They were close. “I guess that whole plot with sending her to Ohio and putting ‘em up in that ridiculous hotel worked out?”

  “How do you manage to pay for all this stuff? I mean, I get that they pay you for the service, but… I saw that hotel bill,” Dora said. “I paid the bill. That thing, and the minibar expenditures, cost more than both of them paid you. Not to mention the dinner at La Chateau? I mean, I know you’ve been doing this for years, so obviously you know something I don’t know, but what the hell, woman?”

  Eve shrugged. “I always work it out. This time, Garnet’s editor paid part of the bill. She apparently was able to write it off as a business expense because of some riot or other. Then we also got a little chip in from Stacy’s promoter. Or maybe it was his tag team partner. I can’t ever keep that stuff straight.”

  “Sounds like a lot of people wanted these two to have a chance, huh? Also, quit drinking my damn coffee.” Dora snatched the cup away from Eve, not caring that some spilled. “The world ain’t always a nasty, brutish place, huh?”

  Eve smiled. “Well, it’s hard to say, but yeah, I think that a lot of times people just want to see their friends happy. They don’t have a clue how much just giving back a little bit can do.”

  The two matchmaking wizards sat there, looking at one another for a moment before Eve knocked on the table top and took another drink from Dora’s cup. “Anything else lined up for the day?” she asked.

  Dora sighed and shook her head. “What if I have strep?”

  Eve shrugged. “Owls don’t have much of a problem with that, you know. It’s all the mice we eat.”

  “Gross. Anyway, no, no interviews today. We’ve got a reindeer coming in tomorrow, a moose with a social phobia, and a bear that is apparently an accountant and wants to be a lion tamer. Oh and a walrus, and a seal who insists he can juggle chainsaws.”

  Snorting a laugh, Eve whistled through her teeth. “Someday, somehow, people will learn that Monty Python jokes are a real good way to make sure you don’t get any dates. We’ll figure ‘em out though. We always do. Why don’t you take off early today? I’m gonna send a note back to the happy couple. They back in town?”

  Dora shook her head. “I talked to Garnet last night. She said they were going to go to Egypt. Not sure I believe it, but… yeah, no, I’m pretty sure those two are riding pretty high right now wherever they are.”

  “Egypt, huh? I believe it. A reporter and a professional wrestler? That is hard to believe. A trip to see the pyramids? Not so hard. Anyway, I’ll get it to them somehow.”

  “You sure?” Dora had already collected her things and took the last drink of coffee from her cup. “I can hang around if you want.”

  “Nah, I got it. Go on and have fun, you crazy kid.”

  The bell on Mating Call Dating Agency’s door jingled as Dora made her exit and Eve sat down with a pen and a fancy, thick, nicely textured stationery pad. She twirled the pen for a moment, and then set to work.

  “I’m happy it worked out for you two. Wherever you go and whatever you see and do, treasure it. You have no idea when something will happen, but for now just live and love. That’s all any of us can hope for, you know? And give that bear a big kiss for me. Tell him we’ll catch the show next time he’s in town.

  Your friends from Mating Call,

  Eve & Dora”

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  SPECIAL EXCERPTS

  Can’t Bear to Run

  The Kendal Creek Bears

  Raine Matthews used to be quirky, fun and slightly goofy. She’s not allowed to be any of those things while she is firmly under her husband’s thumb. Her only reprieve comes from distant memories of a man she saw only once six years ago. In that instant, Raine knew there was something special about him. The memory of that twinkle in his eyes, of his careless smile, gives her a shot of hope at her darkest moments.

  She knows the only way to survive is getting away from her husband, no matter what. And in the back of her mind, she can’t shake the feeling that somewhere, somehow, she’s going to see that mysterious stranger again.

  Daxon Mark is the frustrated, irritated, sexy-as-hell alpha bear of the Kendal clan. Trapped between shuffling truces with other bear clans, and the meddling of an overbearing shifter council, he can’t shake the feeling that the woman he saw six years before is what he needs to stay sane. He’s teetering on the edge and when a bear as big as Dax goes nuts? THAT ain’t something anybody wants.

  With Raine on the lam and Dax trying to escape the confines of small town politics, the two of them finally meet again – in the most romantic of places – in the toilet line at a concert.

  With a glance, he steals her heart, and with a word she sets a fire in his soul. But with trouble brewing back in Kendal Creek and Raine constantly looking over her shoulder, will these two fated mates find their peace? Or will fear, loss, and murder rip the pair apart before love is allowed to bloom?

  Lion in Wait

  Alpha Lion Romance

  Cassiopeia is lanky, quick-witted, and spent most of her life running from one thing or another. She escaped an overbearing family, and a series of dangerous misadventures, but then landed square in the midst of a traveling carnival. In the gritty, grimy dirt circus, love is the furthest thing from Cass’s mind – she’s much more occupied with avoiding her boss Lyle’s slimy fingers.

  Just about the only things Cass
has left are her mind, a few books, and impossibly vivid dreams of a man she’s never met, but who she knows – somehow – is going to find her. And when he does? Well, who knows? But it’s gotta be better than the circus.

  Oh, and then there’s the lion who sleeps in her trailer.

  At first, Lex was impossible to control. He clawed, he snapped, he roared and raged like any lion would, but somehow never hurt anyone, like there was something more to him than caged animal ferocity. He lashed out at everyone except for a certain woman with curly brown hair and a thing for khaki cargo pants.

  No one knew that the REAL Lex – the same man Cass dreamed of for so very long – was hiding beneath the fur and claws. When the lion-shifter lays eyes on the woman he knows he can’t live without, this king of the jungle can’t rest until he’s taken his queen. And when he first reveals the tall, dark and handsome underneath the tail and teeth? Cass isn’t too surprised that the man IN her dreams turned out to be the man OF her dreams.

  Bearly Hanging On

  A Jamesburg Shifters novel

  Jamie Ampton is a sharp-tongued, pointy-toothed, vampy shifter with a penchant for neatly done-up hair buns and a habit of attracting EXACTLY the wrong sort of guy. Guys with a dash of arrogance, a pinch of cocky swagger turn her head… but when her last one turned out to be more “self-important jackass” and less “gruff and strong and takes what he wants,” it left her cold.

  So to speak.

  Ryan Drake has a dark past and a mysterious present. When he shows up demanding the town alpha do his part to care for Jamesburg’s aging shifters, the first thing Jamie notices is that her heart starts beating a little quicker. The second is a knot in the pit of her stomach. And then, before she can catch her breath, he stares straight into her eyes.

  She’s never been one for the big, loud, muscled-up types, but in the space of two breaths, the elegantly detached Jamie finds herself falling for a bear.

  Little does Jamie know that before he stomped into that courtroom, Ryan decided that nothing was gonna stop him from getting what he wanted. But, once he saw Jamie? Suddenly there were two things that this massive blue-eyed alpha bear were going to have, no matter what it took: help for his friends… and Jamie.

  And Ryan? Ryan is one bear who ALWAYS takes what he wants.

  To Catch a Wolf

  A Jamesburg Shifters novel

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  Sometimes a wolf’s gotta fight and bark and bite.

  But other times, a wolf just needs a mate.

  Erik Danniken is the alpha of Jamesburg, a small town, hidden from the world, and full of all kinds of shifters, and secrets. But underneath it all, he’s just a big, rough, bad-boy of a werewolf with a tattoo that goes all the way up his chest. Oh, and don’t forget his massive, building-shaking motorcycle.

  He’s done his fighting, he’s done his carousing. Now he’s the mayor of Jamesburg, and he’s done looking for a mate… because he found her.

  Sometimes a girl needs romance and wine and sweet kisses.

  Other times, she just needs a job.

  Isabel Taylor was more than a little frustrated when she answered a very vague job ad and moved across the country. Curvy, tough and with more than a little bit of a naughty streak, Izzy couldn’t believe her eyes when she saw that first Jamesburg hedgehog stand up, turn into a man and order a drink.

  She’s found her place, found a life she thought she’d never have, and found the love she’d given up on… the problem is, she and Erik have to keep it a secret from everyone else in town.

  Erik wants to claim her forever, mark Izzy as his honest-to-goodness mate. Izzy wants him to quit being such a coward and just come out and do it, but will a good old-fashioned small town scandal make them keep their love a secret, and in the process, kill it before it can grow?

  Two Bears are Better than One

  A Broken Pine Bears Novel

  From USA TODAY and NEW YORK TIMES best-selling author Lynn Red comes a steamy, sexy, hilarious alpha werebear romance… with two times the bears!

  Jill Appleton is a witty, slightly-lanky, tall-enough-to-make-most-guys-nervous biologist with a thing for bears.

  Whoa, whoa, not like that - she’s got a thing for SAVING bears.

  When she hears stories of a secretive group of Kodiaks in the Appalachian Mountains, she knows she’s got to check them out. First of all, they’re not supposed to be there, and second – bears that live in a pack? That’s about as rare as biologists who love big crowds. Or, when it comes to Jill, it’s as rare as one of her dates not turning into a train wreck. She’s all but given up on finding that one guy who the universe decided was right for her.

  Good thing she’s about to meet two.

  Rogue and King, joint alphas of the Broken Pine werebear clan, could not be more different. King is quiet, stalwart, and strong. He holds clan traditions and history sacred, and refuses to wear anything but a loincloth – the way the elders did. Rogue would rather get a face full of werewolf teeth than bother with all that. He’s feral, wild, loyal to a fault, and loves to guzzle craft beer straight from a keg. And also – a loincloth? Jeans all the way for this bear, thank you very much.

  With the outside world coming closer to Broken Pine territory all the time, and the werewolf packs getting more riled up than ever, something is wrong. But, when the two alphas - who according to clan law, both mate one woman, and mate for life - see Jill making her way to camp?

  The two alphas feel their hearts beat together, and know in that second that no matter what, no matter how, they will have her, they will possess her. They’ll make her theirs at any cost.

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  Did you love Hare Today Bear Tomorrow? Then you should read Bear Me Away (Alpha Werebear Shifter Paranormal Romance) by Lynn Red!

  It’s hard to say that Elena St. Claire – an arctic fox-shifting, private investigator – is “down on her luck.” She’s got stable work, a couple of close friends… but when it comes to finding a mate? All she knows is that if she DOESN’T find one, and quick, she’s gonna go crazy from staring at every bear or wolf who tears through Jamesburg on a motorcycle.

  Thomas James Westing – but please, just call him West – is a muscled-up bear who long ago turned to organic farming as his way of keeping his cool. He lives outside Jamesburg, alone, and he likes it that way. Sort of. At least, if he’s alone, his secret – a past filled with rage – can stay that way: a secret.

  When West wakes up one morning to find his garden ravaged, he calls the best private investigator in town. He expects to get the case solved, but when a white and copper-haired fox shows up at his doorstep with a cute little snaggle-toothed-on-the-bottom grin, West realizes he just got a lot more than he bargained for: his heart isn’t gonna let this one go. This is a fox he needs to possess, to claim as his mate. If he doesn’t? He might just go straight off the deep end.

  The second Elena lays eyes on the dark haired, dimple-cheeked cowboy bear with legs so big they stretch his Wranglers, she knows she’s in big, big trouble… and not just because he’s a big, big guy, but because straight off the bat, she falls real, real hard.

  But when petty garden vandalism turns out to be a plot to destroy every single crop in the greater Jamesburg area, can Elena manage to keep West off her mind for long enough to catch a crook? Or will the biggest case she’s ever had bury her – and her chance at the mate she’s always wanted – before they can even kiss?

  **The Jamesburg Shifters are a series of standalone novels that can be enjoyed in any order you like. No cliffhangers here!**

  Read more at Lynn Red’s site.

  Also by Lynn Red

  Jamesburg Shifter Romance

  Bear Me Away (Alpha Werebear Shifter Paranormal Romance)

  Kendal Creek Bears

  Can’t Bear To Run

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nbsp; Can’t Bear to Hide

  Mating Call Dating Agency

  Hare Today Bear Tomorrow

  The Broken Pine Bears

  Two Bears are Better Than One (Alpha Werebear Paranormal Romance)

  Between a Bear and a Hard Place (Alpha Werebear Romance)

  The Jamesburg Shifters

  Bearing It All (Alpha Werebear Shifter Paranormal Romance)

  Bear With Me (Alpha Werebear Shifter Paranormal Romance)

  Bearly Breathing (Alpha Werebear Shifter Paranormal Romance)

  Bearly Hanging On

  Bear Your Teeth (Alpha Werebear Paranormal Shifter Romance)

  The Jamesburg Shifters Volume 2

  The Jamesburg Shifters Volume 1 (BBW Alpha Werewolf Werebear Paranormal Romance)

  To Catch a Wolf (BBW Werewolf Shifter Romance)

  Standalone

  Lion In Wait (A Paranormal Alpha Lion Romance)

  Werewolf Wedding

  Horns for the Harem Girl

  Watch for more at Lynn Red’s site.

  About the Author

  Lynn loves reading romances — especially ones with a full moon, alpha werewolves, and a whole bunch of wild action… but only if they have strong, engaging women and heroes that melt her heart.

  Read more at Lynn Red’s site.