num_pages: 218
description: On his first night renting a cottage on the Cornish coast widower John Tennant comes face to face with of all things a grizzly bear. Fearing for his life John tries to convince the animal he isn't worth eating and is relieved when the bear ambles away.Maintenance man Mitch Benjamin is two hundred years old but doesnt look a day over forty. As a werebear he needs to stay under the radar. The new renter is making that difficult. Not only is John attractive but his vulnerability triggers all of Mitchs protective instincts. If that wasnt trouble enough Mitch is struggling with his inner bears desire to befriend John. He knows what his bear is up to but Mitch doesnt want another mate. His last one was murdered ninety years ago and hes still grieving.John is confused by Mitchs mixed signals. Physically Mitch -- with his bulging muscles and hulking frame -- is a gay mans wet dream come true. But emotionally he keeps closing down. John discovers more comfort with the magnificent grizzly bear he occasionally meets on his evening walks along the beach.In an effort to help Morwenna the owner of the cottages uses her psychic gifts to give John a message from his dead lover George. Far from helping it adds another layer of strangeness to whats already turning out to be the strangest summer John can remember.Can a well-meaning medium and a determined grizzly bring John and Mitch together? Will Mitch come clean about his werebear nature? If he does can John accept that a man and bear exist in the same body?
language: English
title: Summer's Lease
publisher: JMS Books LLC