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Erotic Shifter Fairy Tales #1
Bear's Gold
Riley Gold is on the run. Her ex-boyfriend has been stalking her for the last year and she can’t get out of Dodge, Oregon fast enough. However, she should have planned her escape better, and maybe she wouldn’t have ended up caught in a rainstorm, in the dead of night with a flat tire. Trapped in the woods and miles away from the next town, Riley sets off on foot to a large cabin home for help and refuge for the night. Is it just her imagination or is someone…or something following her?
With the First Moon Festival on its way and pheromones saturating the air, Theo Kodiak is a sniff away from going feral. As the father of two boys, it doesn’t leave him a lot of time to find a companion to help raise them. Low and behold, fate shines down on him and presents a sensuous woman at his door. Riley is cold, scared and in danger, but she just maybe exactly what he needs in his life. The erotic attraction between them can’t be evaded and soon they are swept under a tidal wave of euphoria.
When a threat from both their past jeopardizes everything that is important, Riley and Theo find themselves united and a force to be reckoned with. However, something else may stand in the way of this Were-bear getting his gold.
With the First Moon Festival on its way and pheromones saturating the air, Theo Kodiak is a sniff away from going feral. As the father of two boys, it doesn’t leave him a lot of time to find a companion to help raise them. Low and behold, fate shines down on him and presents a sensuous woman at his door. Riley is cold, scared and in danger, but she just maybe exactly what he needs in his life. The erotic attraction between them can’t be evaded and soon they are swept under a tidal wave of euphoria.
When a threat from both their past jeopardizes everything that is important, Riley and Theo find themselves united and a force to be reckoned with. However, something else may stand in the way of this Were-bear getting his gold.
181 pages, ebook
First published November 30, 2012
About the author
Yvette Hines
106 books200 followersI love romance, and writing is one of my greatest pleasures in life, outside of my husband and daughter. My belief in happily ever after began when I was sixteen and started reading romance books. Now, as an erotic romance author, I try to show that every woman, no matter her color, age, shape, or size, deserves a high level of passion in her life. Residing in North Carolina with my family.
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August 10, 2016
3 Bear Stars
✔ Fast paced story
✔ Barely any real drama & resolves quickly
✔ Light & easy read
✔ Steamy scenes
✔ Story is based mostly around the couple
✔ Could be read in one day
What I liked:
☞ Bear references: the county, peoples names, signs....
☞ Theo's twin boys
☞ The town folks of Den County
☞ Theo is an awesome dad
☞ Every time the boys called their dad "Papa Bear"
☞ Parts of the story felt like Goldilocks and the Three Bears (which makes sense sense due to part of the title.)
☞ How fast and easy Riley took to the twin boys and how protective she is with them.
☞ Dual POVs
✔ Fast paced story
✔ Barely any real drama & resolves quickly
✔ Light & easy read
✔ Steamy scenes
✔ Story is based mostly around the couple
✔ Could be read in one day
What I liked:
☞ Bear references: the county, peoples names, signs....
☞ Theo's twin boys
☞ The town folks of Den County
☞ Theo is an awesome dad
☞ Every time the boys called their dad "Papa Bear"
☞ Parts of the story felt like Goldilocks and the Three Bears (which makes sense sense due to part of the title.)
☞ How fast and easy Riley took to the twin boys and how protective she is with them.
☞ Dual POVs
August 2, 2020
5 Kodiak Stars!
This is an amazing start to my first ever bear shifter book or series. What kind of rock have I been living under. Wow wow wow! Thanks for the rec Rebekah Weatherspoon!
This is an amazing start to my first ever bear shifter book or series. What kind of rock have I been living under. Wow wow wow! Thanks for the rec Rebekah Weatherspoon!
November 30, 2014
Really liked this one. Already bought #2. Will review for the Margins. :D
December 30, 2012
Oh, this is a fun bon bon of a Bear Shifter Romance! Yum, Yum, Honey!
I adore bear shifters so I am not that hard to please but our hero is a wonderful father and a great big hot handsome bear of a man. He has twin sons and they are fun characters.
Our heroine is moving back home to out run a stalker ish ex boyfriend. There is a storm. She crashes into a tree near a remote shifter town and bam! she finds a bear shifter's cabin...like you do in Romanceland. If I want a bear shifter of my own, then I am going to have to drive to the back of beyond in the woods and ram my Honda Fit rudely into some foliage apparently. Luckily, I found my bear a long time ago and don't to need to wander around aimlessly hitting innocent trees with my car in the rain. My insurance agent is disappointed.
Anyhow! The couple has mad mating heat going on. They fight it because of the human/bear thing. She doesn't know he is a bear though.
Things work out without to much drama. There are good twists along the way. I like this couple, the kids, and love the town. Bon Bon.
There are lots of little great jokes in here. This is a bear shifter town and everyone has bearish names and loves honey. I think there should have been more berries. Bear culture is well developed. I roll around in that stuff like clover.
Our heroine is an African American BBW and our hero is paler but that aspect of the book is handled with a light touch. This is good but it could have been a little more seamless. It is awkwardly threaded in.
I look forward to visiting this town again!
I adore bear shifters so I am not that hard to please but our hero is a wonderful father and a great big hot handsome bear of a man. He has twin sons and they are fun characters.
Our heroine is moving back home to out run a stalker ish ex boyfriend. There is a storm. She crashes into a tree near a remote shifter town and bam! she finds a bear shifter's cabin...like you do in Romanceland. If I want a bear shifter of my own, then I am going to have to drive to the back of beyond in the woods and ram my Honda Fit rudely into some foliage apparently. Luckily, I found my bear a long time ago and don't to need to wander around aimlessly hitting innocent trees with my car in the rain. My insurance agent is disappointed.
Anyhow! The couple has mad mating heat going on. They fight it because of the human/bear thing. She doesn't know he is a bear though.
Things work out without to much drama. There are good twists along the way. I like this couple, the kids, and love the town. Bon Bon.
There are lots of little great jokes in here. This is a bear shifter town and everyone has bearish names and loves honey. I think there should have been more berries. Bear culture is well developed. I roll around in that stuff like clover.
Our heroine is an African American BBW and our hero is paler but that aspect of the book is handled with a light touch. This is good but it could have been a little more seamless. It is awkwardly threaded in.
I look forward to visiting this town again!
December 23, 2012
Pretty good read. The chemistry between the characters was Hot and sweet. I loved his twin boys; the little Kodiaks are so cute! But, I have to stop teasing myself with novellas, when I know that they are just too short for me;-)
I wish the story could have gone on a little more. LOL
I wish the story could have gone on a little more. LOL
December 7, 2012
A quickie retelling of Goldie Locks and the three bears. I enjoyed it.
December 7, 2012
Somebody said it best this was a story Goldilocks and the three bears except Papa Bear was looking for his Mama Bear and all the sex she could give.
December 9, 2012
I like how the this author went into detail on how the heroine met the hero from past to future into present. this read is romance without being to kiss face lol.
January 5, 2021
Good
This was a nice read. I especially liked that they had an unknown connection. I would love a follow-up for this particular couple since they epilogue left me a little wanting. I hope there's a little something in the second book.
This was a nice read. I especially liked that they had an unknown connection. I would love a follow-up for this particular couple since they epilogue left me a little wanting. I hope there's a little something in the second book.
August 26, 2015
4.5
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With an ex-boyfriend stalking her Riley Gold decides to take off and head back to her home town. Always restless, always searching for an elusive something, she doesn’t want to head back to her family, but feels she has no choice. When her tire blows out and she hits a tree she rethinks her idea to take the scenic route. Now she’s stuck in Den County with no cell service and no hotel. Luckily Theo Kodiak offers his spare bedroom while her car is repaired, but the heat between them is off the charts and shouldn’t even be possible since she’s a human and he’s a were-bear. This place, this man and his young sons and these people seem so right for her, but she isn’t clued into what their secret is. Will she accept what they are? Could she really have found what she was searching for?
Mmmm…were-bears. I love them. They may be my favorite shifter though I’m not sure exactly why. Anyway, this is a decently written paranormal story with a little suspense thrown in, some humor and a whole lot of heat. I love Riley’s confusion about how much everyone in the county seems to love honey and honey products. lol Everyone’s bear-related names are fun and the steaminess is wowzers. There are a few editing issues, but nothing major. This was quite an enjoyable read for me. I will definitely look up more of this new-to-me author’s work.
*Book source ~ Free from AllRomance
With an ex-boyfriend stalking her Riley Gold decides to take off and head back to her home town. Always restless, always searching for an elusive something, she doesn’t want to head back to her family, but feels she has no choice. When her tire blows out and she hits a tree she rethinks her idea to take the scenic route. Now she’s stuck in Den County with no cell service and no hotel. Luckily Theo Kodiak offers his spare bedroom while her car is repaired, but the heat between them is off the charts and shouldn’t even be possible since she’s a human and he’s a were-bear. This place, this man and his young sons and these people seem so right for her, but she isn’t clued into what their secret is. Will she accept what they are? Could she really have found what she was searching for?
Mmmm…were-bears. I love them. They may be my favorite shifter though I’m not sure exactly why. Anyway, this is a decently written paranormal story with a little suspense thrown in, some humor and a whole lot of heat. I love Riley’s confusion about how much everyone in the county seems to love honey and honey products. lol Everyone’s bear-related names are fun and the steaminess is wowzers. There are a few editing issues, but nothing major. This was quite an enjoyable read for me. I will definitely look up more of this new-to-me author’s work.
February 3, 2015
Another shifter story but this time with bears!
There wasn't much I didn't like about Bear's Gold. I will say that I felt some things could have been fleshed out a bit more to make the story longer and not so rushed toward the end. There were also some typos throughout that were distracting.
I like the cleverness used with all the character's last names and allusion to the goldilocks and the three bears story. At times it was heavy-handed and too obvious, but clever nonetheless.
I wanted to see more Theo and his family outside of his sons. Like his brothers and his parents and I wanted Riley to get to know them. We met a slew of other characters that didn't really drive the plot. I wanted more lore in general about were-bears than a rushed explanation near the end. There was seriously nothing alluding to native american lore until the end and that could've been amazing had it been a motif throughout the book.
I really enjoyed the sexual tension and the sex scenes between Riley and Theo. They were scorching.
I understood Riley and her need to find a home and put roots down and I'm glad she got her happy ending. Overall this was a good story and I'd definitely read more from this author.
3.5 Stars
There wasn't much I didn't like about Bear's Gold. I will say that I felt some things could have been fleshed out a bit more to make the story longer and not so rushed toward the end. There were also some typos throughout that were distracting.
I like the cleverness used with all the character's last names and allusion to the goldilocks and the three bears story. At times it was heavy-handed and too obvious, but clever nonetheless.
I wanted to see more Theo and his family outside of his sons. Like his brothers and his parents and I wanted Riley to get to know them. We met a slew of other characters that didn't really drive the plot. I wanted more lore in general about were-bears than a rushed explanation near the end. There was seriously nothing alluding to native american lore until the end and that could've been amazing had it been a motif throughout the book.
I really enjoyed the sexual tension and the sex scenes between Riley and Theo. They were scorching.
I understood Riley and her need to find a home and put roots down and I'm glad she got her happy ending. Overall this was a good story and I'd definitely read more from this author.
3.5 Stars
September 20, 2015
I do enjoy a twist on established fairytales. In this instance, Riley ends up shacking up with Theo and his boys when she's stranded on the mountain road. Naturally, the big Moon Festival is coming up and Theo's considering choosing a new mama for his boys.
There's attraction. There's the denial of attraction (don't worry, that doesn't last too long). There's a shady ex who won't let Riley go.
Fun and sexy with a side of ... well, actually, it's just fun and sexy. There's a bit of backstory and a bit of angst. It works.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
There's attraction. There's the denial of attraction (don't worry, that doesn't last too long). There's a shady ex who won't let Riley go.
Fun and sexy with a side of ... well, actually, it's just fun and sexy. There's a bit of backstory and a bit of angst. It works.
-Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal
December 24, 2012
So sweet. Sexy hero. This take on the 3 bears fairy tale made me smile.
January 6, 2013
As usual, Yvette did an awesome job on this short story. Loved the twins and the mystery of how she was able to bond with him so quickly.
January 12, 2013
Great short novel. Decent plot and likeable characters.
April 1, 2013
Cute take on the Goldilocks and the Three Bears tale.
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September 13, 2021
Goldilocks with a twist
This book, a sexy twist on Goldilocks, seems to be part serious, part satire, & the mix is a bit off. For instance, the bears’ names seem like they should be funny, like Ruxpin, but the introductions don’t draw the reader to join in the joke, so it’s odd rather than cute.
There are a bunch of typos, including a lot of near word substitutions like cyphering for siphoning, clamoring for clambering, and to for due. It’s understandable enough but seems like it wasn’t copy edited. I found Riley & Theo’s first encounter problematic (no condom) but possibly in keeping with the world building, so not disqualifying on its own. The parts I really disliked were Theo’s macho posturing. He didn’t get mad at people for pushing his kids or breaking an item Riley cared about, he got mad that his rivals touched his property. He didn’t care to protect them from harm so much as protecting them from theft. He could have been written as a protector, not just a collector/possessor, so the toxicity was unnecessary. If you like that kind of thing, you’d probably rate it higher. There’s also some native religious bit, but I don’t know anything of the author to know if it’s appropriation, but it felt like it was.
Basically, it’s an adult Goldilocks who’s DTF. It wasn’t as fun as I was hoping for, but it’s a decent effort. Most of my complaints are endemic to the shifter genre, so if you like those things in your romances more than I do, and expect some goofy names from the get go, you might enjoy this more than I did.
This book, a sexy twist on Goldilocks, seems to be part serious, part satire, & the mix is a bit off. For instance, the bears’ names seem like they should be funny, like Ruxpin, but the introductions don’t draw the reader to join in the joke, so it’s odd rather than cute.
There are a bunch of typos, including a lot of near word substitutions like cyphering for siphoning, clamoring for clambering, and to for due. It’s understandable enough but seems like it wasn’t copy edited. I found Riley & Theo’s first encounter problematic (no condom) but possibly in keeping with the world building, so not disqualifying on its own. The parts I really disliked were Theo’s macho posturing. He didn’t get mad at people for pushing his kids or breaking an item Riley cared about, he got mad that his rivals touched his property. He didn’t care to protect them from harm so much as protecting them from theft. He could have been written as a protector, not just a collector/possessor, so the toxicity was unnecessary. If you like that kind of thing, you’d probably rate it higher. There’s also some native religious bit, but I don’t know anything of the author to know if it’s appropriation, but it felt like it was.
Basically, it’s an adult Goldilocks who’s DTF. It wasn’t as fun as I was hoping for, but it’s a decent effort. Most of my complaints are endemic to the shifter genre, so if you like those things in your romances more than I do, and expect some goofy names from the get go, you might enjoy this more than I did.
July 16, 2017
I get a bit annoyed with erotic stories that doesn't differ from many other romances I've read. I pick an erotica because I want the focus to be on the smut. Not the story. So when I read this one I was not amused that it was a romance with a few sex scenes.
Then I started to think about what erotica is... To me it is like the majority of visual porn. Some flimsy excuse to get to the merging of bodies, which I actually don't like to watch... So why didn't I enjoy this book so much?
I think it's because the way males and females are treated very differently. Both have their own 'roles' and it feels like they can't refuse that.
To me that is not sexy nor arousing. (Also that paragraph annoys me because in dutch mother=mama and father=papa)
Normally I can overlook that because of the shifter aspect but in this case... Seriously mama bears are more dangerous in nature when they have cubs. Also most bears are very solitary and it's really hard to spot the difference between male and/or female unless you know how big a bear is. And even then... But here all the 'protective' character traits are because of the 'bear', yeah no. Human all the way.
The writing style is pleasant to read so really it's a case of 'it's not you, it's me.'
Then I started to think about what erotica is... To me it is like the majority of visual porn. Some flimsy excuse to get to the merging of bodies, which I actually don't like to watch... So why didn't I enjoy this book so much?
I think it's because the way males and females are treated very differently. Both have their own 'roles' and it feels like they can't refuse that.
As young bears they would yearn for the security of a mother to show them tenderness and protection, even more than papa whose job in normal situations was to show them strength and how to be independent males.
To me that is not sexy nor arousing. (Also that paragraph annoys me because in dutch mother=mama and father=papa)
Normally I can overlook that because of the shifter aspect but in this case... Seriously mama bears are more dangerous in nature when they have cubs. Also most bears are very solitary and it's really hard to spot the difference between male and/or female unless you know how big a bear is. And even then... But here all the 'protective' character traits are because of the 'bear', yeah no. Human all the way.
The writing style is pleasant to read so really it's a case of 'it's not you, it's me.'
May 19, 2018
This was a pretty good read. It's shorter but still interesting. Good characters and personalities. I would definitely like to read more in this series. A tiny bit of suspense, emotions, courage, strength, some sass, steaminess, sweetness, and the perfect HEA. I enjoyed reading this and wouldn't mind reading it again. Great for an anytime read, whether it be whiling away time or cuddling up. Enjoy
May 26, 2020
I picked this up because I needed a book to fulfill the category for Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge for a romance with a single parent. This was okay, but I would really only recommend it to someone who is interested in the sex, which is way at the beginning of the book anyway. The story is predictable and bland, though I did enjoy the scenes with the two children. I also am not a huge fan of using food to describe skin color... :shrug:
May 30, 2021
Riley and Theo - Destined
Great book. I can’t believe that Riley and Theo actually met as children and that his bear must have remembered her but Theo hadn’t gotten the memo. Riley only began to remember when speaking with her dad and he told her about the shaman and the letter and coin. Worth the read!
Great book. I can’t believe that Riley and Theo actually met as children and that his bear must have remembered her but Theo hadn’t gotten the memo. Riley only began to remember when speaking with her dad and he told her about the shaman and the letter and coin. Worth the read!
September 28, 2017
It was an ok light read, very insta lust, kinda insta love? But had some rather cool elements.
Recommended for people who like their romance with a LOT of lust and sexy times, and not muuuch plot or a lot of troubles.
Recommended for people who like their romance with a LOT of lust and sexy times, and not muuuch plot or a lot of troubles.
June 21, 2018
The premise is great, and there were several cute moments. However, the story would have benefited greatly if it were full length instead of a novella. I wanted more--depth & events to build up the romance.
December 12, 2021
Unique take on Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
Very cute story. Very good with the steamy and the sweet. Love the bear cubs and the town. I think I’m gonna have to get the next book as well. Lol
Very cute story. Very good with the steamy and the sweet. Love the bear cubs and the town. I think I’m gonna have to get the next book as well. Lol
August 4, 2024
Loved This!
Yvette Hines has another hit! BEAR’S GOLD was amazing! Theo and Riley had such wonderful chemistry and this story will steal your heart!
I look forward to reading more books by Hines and visiting Den County again!
Yvette Hines has another hit! BEAR’S GOLD was amazing! Theo and Riley had such wonderful chemistry and this story will steal your heart!
I look forward to reading more books by Hines and visiting Den County again!
June 9, 2018
A little dip in the honey pot.
Over all, this was an enjoyable book though I wish it were a bit longer. There’s so much that could have been explored.
Over all, this was an enjoyable book though I wish it were a bit longer. There’s so much that could have been explored.
June 23, 2020
Fun and really hot. A quick read.
August 27, 2020
Hawt shorty.
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