My mission: Save my woman, guard the secret of the Spirit
Bear, and take down the poachers.
Spirit Bear
Conspiracy
Brotherhood of the Wild #1
by Anne Kane
Genre: MC Romantic Suspense
My mission: Save my woman, guard the secret of the rare
spirit bear, and take down the poachers.
Ryland -- I was tailing a gang of poachers, certain they’d
lead me straight to their kingpin, when a stray arrow from a crossbow slammed
into me. Pain lanced through me and everything faded to black. In that blur of
unconsciousness, I could have sworn a pure white bear stood over me, calm as
can be. When I opened my eyes again, a woman -- curvy and impossibly beautiful
-- was watching me with the cutest look of mixed concern and distrust on her
face.
Kimberly -- I thought I was alone on a tiny island off the
coast of British Columbia until an arrow from a crossbow barely missed
skewering me. With my dog Diego at my heels, I ran to hide in a maze of caves,
my heart pounding. Crouched down in the dark, I listened in terror as voices
and footsteps floated to me from outside. I prayed the shooters wouldn’t find
the spirit bear that inhabited this place. When I finally crept back out into
the daylight, I found I wasn’t the only target -- but the unconscious man lying
in a pool of his own blood wasn’t talking. Victim or one of them?
WARNING: This Riptide action-adventure romance includes
violence, abuse, coarse language, vigilante justice, and adult situations. No
cheating, no cliffhangers, and a guaranteed happily ever after. Enjoy!
What readers
are saying:
☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆5 out of 5 stars.
Diego Rules Poachers Drool !
Loved the start of The Brotherhood series !! It has loose
ties to the Author’s other series called Riptide MC ! The characters Kimberly
and Ryland are well written and a lot of fun to read. The storyline has real
world implications in the animal poaching and for animals living in shelters,
so please be careful if such stories cause you any emotional distress. The book
has a lot of action both in and out of the “bedroom”. I can’t wait to read book
2. 5
’s for an action packed read !. · Dianna Rule TX
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Spirit Bears
Spirit bears (aka Kermode bears -- Ursus americanus
kermodei) are a subspecies of the North American black bear with a rare
recessive gene that makes their fur white or cream. Spirit bears are found only
in the Great Bear Rainforest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest.
Estimated spirit bear population numbers no more than 400 individuals. The
First Nations communities who have lived in the region for thousands of years
call the spirit bear moskgm’ol, or “white bear,” and view the animal as
sacred.
Many thanks to BBC Wildlife for their Spirit
Bear Guide.
Kimberly
I rinsed myself off and then stepped out of the shower,
wrapping one towel around myself and using another to towel my hair dry. Still
working on my hair, I opened the door and sauntered down the hall into the
living room. “So who was at the door? A vacuum cleaner salesman or one of those
darling guys in white shirts and badly fitting suits trying to save your soul?”
“Ummm.” Sasha cleared her throat noisily. “Actually, it’s my
stepbrother, Matty. You remember me telling you about him?”
I let go of the second towel in favor of making sure the one
wrapped around my torso was firmly in place. “Oh crap, I’m sorry. I’ll go get
decent.” I could feel my face turning bright red as I whirled around and
scurried down the hall to my bedroom.
Just what I needed -- to meet Sasha’s stepbrother without
any clothes on. I choked down an insane urge to start giggling. I had the
feeling once I started, I wouldn’t be able to stop. Hopefully I hadn’t flashed
the poor guy with any body parts before I fled.
I pulled on a clean pair of jeans and a sweatshirt before
blow-drying my hair. I needed to buy myself time to get over the embarrassment
of waltzing practically naked into the living room.
I groaned at the thought of what he must think of me. Sasha
had told me he was a bit of a maverick, ex-military turned crusader, running
around trying to save the world.
Sounded like a nice enough guy, and Sasha adored him. A part
of me envied the fact that both Sasha and her stepbrother had the financial
security to let them do what they wanted with their lives. Unlike me, they were
born into wealthy families. Although my salary as a conservation officer was
decent enough, there wasn’t much left over at the end of the month. Life was
expensive.
Putting the hair dryer down on the dresser, I grasped the
door handle and took a deep breath. I opened the door and forced myself to walk
down the hall to the living room as if I hadn’t just waltzed in there sporting
a towel and nothing else. Matty was family, right? Family got to see you in
your tattered jeans and Saturday sweats.
And with your soggy bath towel wrapped around you.
Sasha’s stepbrother was a bit of a mystery to me.
I’d never met him. I’d just heard stories about this crazy
gonna-save-the-world guy that randomly showed up without prior warning. Sasha
adored him because he’d run interference between her and her parents and
managed to get them to back off when they wanted to marry her off to some
country club guy in their jet set.
From what I’d gathered from Sasha’s stories, he belonged to
a group of guys who didn’t always work within the law. I wasn’t quite sure how
they went about that, but I suspected it paid to be rich and powerful enough to
make people do what you want. He sounded like your typical rebel.
Plastering a smile on my face, I entered the living room at
a sedate pace. “So where’s this famous stepbrother of yours?”
“Right here.” Sasha bounced to her feet, her eyes glowing
happily as she swept her arm out to indicate the man lounging on the sofa
beside her. “Matty, meet the sister of my heart, Kimberly.”
The man rose to his feet and turned to face me, extending
his hand.
Taking the offered hand, I looked up and the smile froze on
my face as I stared into those gorgeous blue eyes. “Ryland?”
Award winning author Anne Kane lives in the beautiful
Okanagan Valley with a bouncy little rescue mutt(Merlin the Wonder Dog), a
slightly larger rescue dog (Lexi the Aussie Shepherd) a cantankerous Himalayan
cat, and too many fish to count. She has two handsome sons and seven adorable
grandchildren. She’s always been fascinated by science fiction and fantasy so
of course when she writes, she lets her imagination take over. The one thing
the reader can always count on is that the main characters will live happily
ever after, even if they have to defeat a few nasty aliens first.
When she's not busy writing the next great novel, she likes
to kayak, hike, ride motorcycles, swim, skate, practice karate, play her
guitar, sing and of course, read.
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