Michael Thorpe was a Kodiak bear shifter. There were very few of his kind left. He had spent most of his adult life among humans, trying to hide his true nature. He and his brother, Micah, had been raised by a family of sea lion shifters. The sea lions had come across his mother as she lay dying after being shot by a hunter. He never knew what happened to his dad. His mother had only lived long enough to tell the sea lions about her cubs before she died. He didn’t know if there were more like him or if he and his brother were the only ones. He has spent the last several years of his life working and building his business.