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Ivy Fitzhugh is on the run with her best friend’s eighteen-month-old little girl, Bella. To save the toddler from the same fate as her now dead mother at the hands of Bella’s father, Ivy plans to take the little girl to a small bear clan near the Everglades in Florida. But fate and a broken-down, POS car have other plans. Cullen MacAvoy is a part-time deputy sheriff and a full-time Enforcer who also makes a living crafting wooden furniture. He recognizes Ivy as his fated mate, but he wants nothing to do with it. He doesn’t want to end up like the other males in his clan, led around by their mates as if they didn’t have minds of their own. No, he’d help the woman and her adorable little girl, find out what she was hiding, and let her go on her way. He wouldn’t let his lonely bear have any say about it. But when Bella’s father shows up, Cullen must protect the woman he loves, at all costs.
Author

Cynthia Garner discovered her love for making up stories at the age of twelve when her teacher told her to write a story that started “It was a dark and stormy night…” But she didn’t think about making it a profession until 2005, when she began entering—and winning—writing contests. Under her alternate ego Sherrill Quinn she has three Kensington Brava paranormal romance books and a novella as part of the Belong to the Night anthology, as well as several erotic romance novellas published electronically with Ellora’s Cave and Amber Heat. Her writing has been consistently rated with 4 and 5 stars and called “thrilling”, “imaginative” and “fresh.” When she’s not working her day job, you’ll find her at her laptop writing. Or watching too much TV. Keep up to date by visiting