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    Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair: Scottish Werebears, #1
    Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair: Scottish Werebears, #1
    Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair: Scottish Werebears, #1
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    Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair: Scottish Werebears, #1

    By Lorelei Moone

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    This romance writer's new muse hides a big furry secret…

     

    Heartbroken and newly single, Clarice flees to a remote cottage in the Scottish Highlands for a writing holiday. She no longer believes in love, but her publisher doesn't care.

     

    When she spots Derek, the ruggedly handsome farmer who runs the place, everything changes. Smitten, her creative juices start to flow again. 

    Derek loves his life. Far away from civilization, his secluded home offers all the peace and quiet he craves. Until Clarice walks into his life, and turns it up-side-down.

     

    He must avoid her. Not just to maintain his sanity, but also to keep from breaking the rules. 

     

    His big furry secret threatens to break free and ruin everything.

     

    If you love stories featuring grumpy & reclusive bear shifters and fated soulmates, then you'll adore the Scottish Werebears. Get your copy and escape into Clarice and Derek's unexpected affair today!

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereXplicitTales
    Release dateOct 17, 2016
    ISBN9781370160235
    Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair: Scottish Werebears, #1
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    Lorelei Moone

    Lorelei Moone is an author of paranormal romance based in London. A lover of all things sweet and caffeinated, when she's not writing about sexy bear shifters and their strong-willed curvaceous love interests, Lorelei can be found baking cookies or cakes for her family.

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      Scottish Werebear - Lorelei Moone

      Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair

      A BBW Scottish Bear Shifter Paranormal Romance by Lorelei Moone. 

      To be kept up-to-date with new releases, why not sign up to Lorelei's mailing list, and get Sugar & Spice: A Scottish Werebear Xmas absolutely free!

      Romance novelist, Clarice Adler, has lost the inspiration to write ever since dumping her cheating boyfriend. How do you dream up a plot of two people falling in love, when you’ve stopped believing in love yourself? But her deadline is looming, and her career hangs in the balance, so she decides to lock herself away on the secluded Scottish Isle of Skye to finish her manuscript. Upon meeting Derek McMillan there, it seems she’s found her new muse and the words start to flow out of her as if by magic. Clarice falls for him, hard, despite knowing nothing about the man, except that he’s unavailable.

      Derek McMillan has been managing his farm and renting out a few holiday cottages on his own for years now. He deals with the occasional tourist for some extra money, but mostly keeps to himself. When he first lays eyes on the curvy beauty, Clarice, he immediately regrets accepting her booking. Lightning strikes, and as much as he tries to deny it, his inner bear knows that she’s his mate. But he’s a shifter, and she’s a human, and the two can’t ever mix, can they?

      In this steamy paranormal romance novella, follow along as an impossible love blossoms between two people, who couldn’t be more different. One might say fate intended for them to meet, if you believe in that sort of thing, but they’re both set on fighting their attraction with everything they’ve got. They’re going to need another push to admit to themselves as well as each other what’s going on…

      This story is intended for adult audiences only. 

      Reading order for the Scottish Werebears series: An Unexpected Affair, A Dangerous Business, A Forbidden Love, Sugar & Spice: A Scottish Werebear Xmas, A New Beginning, A Painful Dilemma and A Second Chance. Or Read them all together with Scottish Werebear: The Complete Collection!

      © 2015 Lorelei Moone

      Published by eXplicitTales

      Cover Design by Jacqueline Sweet

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Scottish Werebear: An Unexpected Affair

      Story

      About the Author

      Chapter One

      To be kept up-to-date with new releases, why not sign up to Lorelei's mailing list, and get Sugar & Spice: A Scottish Werebear Xmas absolutely free!

      Throughout her flight into Inverness, Scotland, Clarice found herself repeatedly going over the printout she’d taken of her destination: Moss Cottage on the Isle of Skye. It promised unspoiled vistas, a homely atmosphere and most importantly of all: a quiet getaway from the hustle and bustle of modern life.

      That's what she needed most: to get away. Away from the distractions of life in London, away from the constant buzz of her phone, notifying her of incoming emails or tweets. Away from all reminders of the life she used to share with Alan before she caught him cheating on her.

      Upon her arrival at the cottage, she would send a message to Lily, her best friend, who had also been the one to suggest the Isle of Skye as a destination to begin with, and that was it. Clarice had promised herself to switch everything off. From nine to five daily, she would be unplugged, allowing her to focus on the task at hand.

      After stealing a glance out the window - they were still descending through thick cloud cover - she flipped the page over, reading the backside again. Local attractions include wildlife walks, beach walks, hill trails. Walks, basically, all you could do on the Isle of Skye according to this text was go for a quiet walk.

      It is going to have electricity, though, won't it? Clarice read the other side again and studied the accompanying pictures. There was a table lamp in one of the shots, which suggested that electricity was indeed going to be supplied... As long as her laptop had power, everything was going to be all right.

      As the small plane landed bumpily on the runway, she felt a surge of excitement as well as nerves build within her chest. Soon, a mere three-hour drive away, she was going to arrive at her destination.

      " Please remain seated until the fasten seatbelt sign is switched off," said the captain's almost robotic voice over the intercom.

      Clarice smiled to herself. No way that's going to happen. Half these people would be up, carry-on luggage and phone in hand, before the plane came to a halt.

      She leaned over to get a better look out the window. The views throughout most of the flight had been obstructed by a thick layer of clouds, far below the altitude of the plane. Now, the outside world looked as one would expect Scotland to look in early autumn: grey and damp.

      How does it matter, it's not like I'll leave the house, much. Clarice took a deep breath, holding it in an attempt to calm her nerves. She had never done anything like this. Leave it all behind for a few weeks of solitude.

      But this time, it was necessary. Early attempts to figure out if there was any flexibility in the deadline for her latest book had only resulted in her editor breathing down her neck harder. Apparently anything short of a deadly illness wasn't cause enough to postpone a release. A messy breakup and resulting existential crisis didn't count. That was why Clarice had been forced to resort to drastic measures to finish the manuscript on time.

      Finally, the fasten seatbelt signs switched off with the customary ding, and soon after, the doors of the plane opened. Clarice smiled a final goodbye to the quiet old man seated next to her. The flight was relatively short, as far as flights go, but she was still surprised that he hadn't said a word throughout. He nodded, then joined the throng of impatient passengers heading for the door.

      It was a small airport, meaning you didn't get one of those fancy walkways leading from the plane straight to the door. Instead, all the passengers were let off via a mobile staircase, and then they walked along demarcated pathways painted on the concrete taxiway, towards the modest looking terminal building to collect their bags.

      The bags arrived in a similarly low-tech manner: on trolleys in plain view of the waiting passengers. Clarice found her suitcase and started walking, aimlessly at first, until she spied the car rental sign.

      Alan used to take care of all of these things during their holidays together, but now it was all up to her. How hard can it be?

      As it turned out, picking up a pre-booked rental car wasn't very difficult at all. However, Clarice was still battling residual nerves by the time she made it into the driver's seat and started leafing through the various printouts of the route to the Isle of Skye. It looked easy enough, there weren't very many roads to choose from. The maps on Clarice’s phone concurred.

      A deep breath later, she turned the key. So far so good, now it was time for the home stretch.

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      As pretty as the drive towards the Isle of Skye was, it did nothing to prepare her for the beauty ahead. Stark black cliffs stood out against the dramatic clouds overhead. There wasn't much vegetation, just grasses and mosses with the occasional small grouping of trees that

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