Christmas With The Grizzly: A Fated-Mates Romance

by Ariana Hawkes

A steamy, sparkly snowed-in Christmas romance with a growly grizzly, and all the magic of second chances!

This time of year is hell for a bear like me. The lights, the noise. The darn happy-human celebrations.
Usually, I stay in my beast form and sleep right through—chased by dreams of the one I let get away.
Then her voice cuts through the frozen air.
Scared. Desperate.
Stranded in the snow… calling for a goddamn lost cat?!
Lila.
Five years older. Still stubborn. Still so beautiful she knocks me senseless.
The bond snaps tight and my bear roars to life.
She still doesn’t know what I am.
She doesn’t know why I tore myself away from her.
But the moment we touch, the years collapse, and all I can think about is pulling her into my arms and never letting her go.
And when the blizzard comes, trapping us together in a little log cabin, there’s no hiding anymore.
I might be a grumpy, furry-ass beast, but Lila is mine to protect.
Mine to claim.
And this Christmas, I’ll stop at nothing to make her mine forever.

If you like obsessed, possessive, grizzly-shifter heros, snarky heroines who deserves the world, and enough snowy coziness, found family vibes, and second-chance magic to melt even the coldest winter night, you'll love Holt and Lila's story!

Genres: Holiday, Paranormal Romance, Shapeshifters, Contemporary

113 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 4, 2025

About the author

USA Today bestselling author Ariana Hawkes writes spicy romantic stories with lovable characters, plenty of suspense, and a whole lot of laughs. She told her first story at the age of four, and has been writing ever since, for both work and pleasure. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and two huskies.

Reviews

[꧁ᙏᗣᙃⱿꙆᗣ꧂ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Obsessed Mountain Mates Series :
✅ 1. Snowed In With the Grizzly - 3.5 🐻
𝐉𝐀𝐗𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐎𝐖𝐀𝐍
✅ 2. Driven Wild By The Grizzly - 4 🐻🐻🐻🐻
𝐄𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐉𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐂𝐀
✅ 3. Chosen By The Grizzly - 3.4 🐻
𝐉𝐀𝐒𝐎𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐈𝐄
✅ 4. Off-Limits To The Grizzly - 3.6 🐻
𝗭𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗥
✅ 5. Taken Home By The Grizzly - 4 🐻🐻🐻🐻
𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐊 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐎𝐄
✅ 6. Fated To The Grizzly - 3.7 🐻
𝐎𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐂𝐎𝐔𝐓
✅ 7. Sunshine for the Grumpy Grizzly - 4🐻🐻🐻🐻
𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐍 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐔𝐂𝐘
✅ 8 Christmas With The Grizzly - 3.5 🐻
𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐓 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐋𝐈𝐋𝐀
❌ 9. ...

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[Carylle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love forever after

This story tells of a young woman that is in love with guy that she met when she was eighteen and now she has her bear and life was good. I would like to say thank you for all your hard work and may fortune smile 😃on you always 😁from a bookworm that loves to read

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet story

This is the perfect book for those readers who need a shifter fix, but don't have a lot of time for a long novel. The characters are interesting, and it has a bittersweet back story for their past. It's always nice to visit a Bear clan, and meet the family. Trish. A.

[Sara Speck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cute quick story

Christmas time story. Snowed in without power. At least the hot neighbor is there to help with the animals.

He broke her by walking away. Can he fix it when he shows back up?

[Ash Summers · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's cute and a great Christmas read. I especially loved the ending. This is the perfect book to pick up on a cold winter's night, bundled up and ready for some fun. It's not serious, it's relatively playful, with a decent backstory. Overall, I enjoyed it.

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

Christmas with the grizzly

Novella, fated mates, second chance romance, secrets, bear shifter, mountain man, stranded close proximity, rescued, recluse, virgin, visiting hometown after leaving

[Darlena · Rating 5 out of 5]

2nd chances

Cute short story about 2nd chances with a huge grizzly bear and his human mate. And of course a HEA.

[Escapist Romantic · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5⭐️

[Wanda Grier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sweet short novella!

This book was a good sweet novella filled with long lost love💘 It was family values and closeness. This book is what most romance readers want a HEA.

[Sarah Woods · Rating 5 out of 5]

good

Great read highly recommend this book to anyone reading it. Holt and Lila are great. Great book to red kept me wanting more

[Meagan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Note to self:
Meagan...stop reading mountain man books. You're not going to get you a mountain man. 😅😅

[BABEMCCASH · Rating 5 out of 5]

fun Read

Hot sex—handsome bear shifter and a virgin together for Christmas in a cabin and a blizzard. What a recipe for success!!