Fated Midlife Christmas

Shifter Nation: Enchanted Over Forty

De: Meg Ripley

Narrado por: DC Cole

A healer who gave up on love.
A polar bear sworn to duty.
And the Christmas magic they never saw coming.

I thought I’d be spending another Christmas without a mate,
But one look into Lars Olsen’s eyes beneath the mistletoe
Tells my bear, at forty, she’s finally found her other half.
The problem?
This rugged polar bear shifter lives in Norway,
Guarding an energy node that keeps the world spinning.
When Salem’s energy lines begin to fail, Lars agrees to help,
Uncovering secrets that run darker than winter nights.
Working beside him enhances my healing magic—
But awakens wounds I have yet to heal in my own heart.
My bear wants him.
My heart fears losing him.
Is a Christmas miracle enough to rewrite fate itself?

Steamy shifter love scenes and a HEA inside! No cheating or cliffhanger in this standalone romance. Listeners 18+.

©2025 Meg Ripley (P)2026 Meg Ripley

A Bearable Enchanting Holiday Shifter Action Romance

And yes I totally meant to write bearably as in the characters are bears not that it is a tolerable tale to be suffered through. Got your attention didn't it?

Amanda and Lars Christmas love story goes well beyond just a fated shifter romance. If this is your first time stumbling onto a Meg Ripley book, she shakes up the paranormal shifter romance trope with a variety of other tropes thrown in just to make the storylines unpredictable and interesting. Even though many of the series are interlinked with one another, I have yet to experience feeling like it is just the same storyline with different characters retold.

Amanda is a bear shifter who is also part witch belonging to a coven of other witch shifters in Salem, Massachusetts. Lars is a visiting polar bear shifter from Norway who is a guardian of the ley lines to a dragon clan he knows. How many different tropes so far? Idk but it all works for a great story to listen to. Add in a Christmas romance, fated mates, later in life and an event no one saw coming needing to be dealt with just to increase the hooks to reel you in.

In the end love always wins the day and a new couple find their way to be together.

I can't recommend these books and series, especially the audio versions enough. The narrator DC Cole's voice wasn't exactly what I expected this time around, sounding more like an even older generation than the characters, but it works. He does an excellent job when it comes to varying his voice to represent the endless characters making an enjoyable experience for the listener. I can't think of any point in which I couldn't tell who the character was in a scene in a particular moment.

I await the next book or boxes set eager to enjoy hearing the next adventure and characters to fall in love.

I received a free copy of this book and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Christmas with Amanda and Lars

Lars and Amanda’s love story was an enjoyable read. Fated though there were some big decisions that needed to be made in order for fate to take place. The side characters and dragons made it more interesting.

Shifters

Such a great Christmas love story. Even with the old witch spirit coming back and they worked together to cast her back to the afterlife. The narrator was great.

Amanda and lars

This is book 4 in the Enchanted Over Forty Series. Christmas is here and Lars is visiting friends and taking a break from his duties. He never imagined Amanda and the gift of finding his fated mate. In the same breath not being able to have her due to their duties and long distance. As they battle the illness hitting the dragons they discover more about each other and what the future could hold. Their romance is slow but true. It is a great feel good read. If you haven't tried this older hero romance this is a great place to start. You will not be disappointed.