His dead grandmother signed him up for a dating app. Before he was born. The match is a human who doesn't know bears are real.
Arthur hasn't touched another person in years. He has bees, honey with bibliographies, and an inner bear who narrates his loneliness like a nature documentary. Then ROAR's algorithm spits out a 98.7% match — Nate Porter, cookbook author, new in town, currently building a conspiracy corkboard about why everyone in Pine Ridge is enormous and keeps sniffing him.
Arthur's trying to keep seven hundred pounds of grizzly from surfacing every time Nate smiles. Nate's trying to figure out why his boyfriend made him laminated tasting cards with footnotes. And the truth — the fur, the claws, the mate bond Arthur didn't ask for — is one bad farmer's market away from blowing everything open.
THIS one is my favorite. No notes. This was absolutely adorable. I loved both MCs so much. Honey as a love language? Dead. Arthur is a delight and to be protected at all costs. The writing is fantastic as usual. Slow clap. The end.