Corin is a big, insecure baker with an amazing gift in the kitchen-and a big secret. He's a bear shifter. Extremely shy even on a good day, he doesn't have many friends, and would do almost anything to avoid human interaction...at least until he runs across a sweet, prickly homeless man named Mike, a man about his age, with enchanting eyes. One thing leads to another, and a tentative friendship becomes more. Corin's falling fast and hard for this man, but there's still that secret between them. Can they make a life together, or will his shifter nature be too much for Mike to bear? 40,000 words The Baking Bears series: sweet stories focus on bear shifters finding their forever mates in this gentle series of standalone shifter romances.