A Polar Expedition: And Other Stimulating Research Opportunities SIGNED

Magical researcher Sirin has everything she needs for a solo trek through the Arctic: a sledge heaped with supplies, a fistful of insubordinate audacity, and—unknown to her—-the eye of a polar bear shifter stalking her every move.

Sirin is determined to find the source of magic before it disappears. Nothing, not expulsion from her guild, becoming the laughing stock of the magical research community, or the threat of certain death on the taiga will stop her. Not even the careful and patient trailing of a shifter who shouldn’t exist.

Berne is a simple bear. He likes rolling around in the snow, a good meal, and, apparently, round little scientists. Of which, he realizes, Sirin could be both. When his duty to protect a thousand-year-old secret collides with the undeniable pull of a fated mate bond, Berne can't help but sink his teeth into the one solution that'll let him keep his prey forever: a mating bite.

Exploration has never been this stimulating.

Tropes:

• Monster Romance
• Cozy Fantasy 
• Plus Size FMC

Content Warnings:

• Traumatic Brain Injury (including amnesia)
• Medical treatment/blood talk
• Threats and mentions of Capital Punishment 
• Off-screen presumed death of a minor
• Non-con mating bond
• Shifted Sex
• Primal Play
• Discusions of breeding (withour pregnancy)
• Somnophilia
• Lies by omision 
• Stalking 
• Power Exchange without explicit concent 
• References to classist society created by preferential treatment of magically gifted individuals