Bear's Midlife Second Chance

Shifter Nation: Fated Over Forty

By: Meg Ripley

Narrated by: D.C. Cole

Length: 4 hrs and 45 mins

Publisher's summary

At 46, I’m going through The Change....
In more ways than I’d ever imagined.

After Dean Thompson broke my heart 28 years ago,
I left my hometown and never looked back.
Now my adoptive parents are nearing their 80s,
And even though they’re shifters,
They need help more than they’d care to admit.
So I packed up my life and my hormonal teenage daughter
And finally headed home to Carlton.
Just as we were getting settled,
Mom accidentally started a fire at her chocolate shop.
And who showed up to put it out?
Friggin’ Dean.
He may have extinguished that flame,
But the second he took off his helmet,
He reignited one inside my soul.
I’d spent so long trying to forget that damn bear shifter,
But when he asked to catch up, I couldn’t resist,
Even though I knew it was bad news.
Now that I’m rekindling my relationship with Dean,
A truth is revealed about my past,
Forever changing the concept of life as I know it.
Hell, I thought menopause was a rollercoaster,
But buckle up, buttercup...it’s time for the ride of my life.
Steamy shifter love scenes and an HEA inside! No cheating or cliffhanger in this stand-alone romance. Listeners 18+.

©2022 Meg Ripley (P)2023 Meg Ripley

Rebecca and Dean

This is a great addition to a very enjoyable series, it tells Rebecca and Dean's story and also shows very well the different attitudes people adopt at different ages. Rebecca and Dean were meant to be together but their road to happiness isn't a smooth one.

I like the narration by D C Cole, he did such a great job of bringing the characters to life.

Loved

Very much enjoyed this audio book. The narrator was awesome. The story caught my attention from the beginning. Love fated mates stories.

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Second Chance At Romance

Rebecca has come back to her home town in Carlton with her young teenage daughter Madison who did not want to move. Dean is a super sexy alpha bear shifter volunteer firefighter; he also works for Thompson and Son Logging and he broke Rebecca’s heart over 28 years ago. Rebecca was adopted by her elderly 80 something parents when she was a baby. They are the owners of a chocolate shop and are in need of their daughter’s help so she returns home. One day Rebecca’s mom accidently sets the chocolate shop on fire and none other than Rebecca’s heart throb comes to put out the flames but he ignites a flame in Rebecca. Dean has never forgotten about Rebecca and has known for years that Rebecca is his fated mate and his bear lets him know. Dean is not sure how he should inform Rebecca about her being his mate. Rebecca not only has her parents to worry about; her teenaged daughter Madison is now hanging with a rival clan.
This is a great read with an intriguing surprising twist that you will not want to miss this addition to the Fated Over Forty series.

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Childhood sweethearts

Dean and Rebecca were childhood sweethearts until she broke his heart and left town. 28 years later she returns to help her ailing adoptive parents with their store. She returns with her teenage daughter Madison. She had no intention of rekindling anything with Dean. Except she can’t see to stay away no matter how hard she tries. Nothing has changed the same issues still exist.

Dean can’t believe Rebecca is back to stay. His bear wants him to claim her but Dean is gun shy on how she left him all those years ago. Unknown parties in the woods and a heritage that no one knew about will either bring them back together or completely tear them apart.

I really enjoyed Dean and Rebecca’s story. We got to see how they changed over the years and how they interact now. And we are never too old to learn new things about out self or even to come to understand that history isn’t always the way we thought it was. This was a great read and I look forward to future books by Meg Ripley.

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New beginnings

Moving back to her hometown brought old feelings back to Rebeca. Nothing seemed easy and finding out her true shape made this journey special

"It really was like one of those cutesy movies."

Much of Dean and Rebecca's romance is out of a tv-movie... with a dash of bear shifting and clan politics on the side to keep it interesting, and in their world real.

Part of what makes this story so engaging is how relatable the misunderstandings and conflicts are, with Dean committed to his clan and community as well as his friends and family, and Rebecca struggling with understanding that hierarchy and its role in a family's life when they already have enough responsibilities and pressures to handle.

Add in teenagers testing boundaries and other clans pushing buttons for fun and this was a "page turner" I didn't want to put down... the Audible edition is read by an engaging narrator who does a really nice job of bringing these pages to life.

I was gifted with a copy of Bear's Midlife Second Chance and chose to share my thoughts.

Second Chance love

This is a second chance, later in life romance story. I like to story overall. There were a few times where I just didn't undertand the heroine in the story. It felt as if they were still stuck in the past and unable to deal with their differences until the end of the story. I actually had to hear the story again so I could review it honestly. I was really frustrated with both characters because of the lack of communication and understanding. This did resolve within the story line. I have to add that this story is a more relatable story with a paranormal twist.

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I Enjoyed It

I enjoyed this book. I loved the idea of a heroine who isn't a shifter but was adopted by and raised by shifters. So she knows about them and the potential difficulties her shifter parents would have in their aging years while needing to keep their existence secret from humans. I liked both Rebecca and Dean and their second chance at a romance. Her parents and daughter were a nice addition to the story.

D.C. Cole narrated this book and did a good job with the different characters' voices.

Overall: 4 stars
Performance: 4 stars
Story: 4 stars

Second Chance

This is Rebecca nad Dean's story. A story of high school love and lost. Folow the story and secrets that come to the forefront. What will happen? Will love come back?.

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MIDLIFE BEARS

Dean and Rebecca. They went to school together. They dated in school. Hes a bear shifter and shes not....HUMMMMM...Hes so obsessed with clan business that she breaks it off with him and leaves town. Now shes 40+ and coming back to take care of her parents who are shifters and shes a human adopted by them. HUMMMMMMMMMMMM...A must read the story is captivating. Lots of secrets.

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great plot

this was a well develped storyline that
has all things to make a great shifter readThe charters hsd chemisty that drew me into there world.
The narrator did a good job of bringing the characters alive on the pages.
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leaving a review.

I like this series!

This is the third book in the Shifter Nation: Fated Over Forty Series, a bear shifter romance. I like this series! Dean and Rebecca's second chance romance is fast paced, passionate, entertaining, and captivating. Dean is handsome, and protective. Rebecca is smart, strong, and independent. I liked Rebecca's teenage daughter Maddison. D.C. Cole did an excellent job bringing this story to life. I enjoyed it. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Bear's Midlife Second Chance

Rebecca is a human with shifter adoptive parents, she used to date Dean years ago. When her parents health declines and they need help in their store, she ends up returning to town with her teenage daughter. After a fire in her parents shop she ends up seeing Dean again as he is one of the firefighters who helped with the fire.
He is still interested in being with Rebecca, he thought she was his mate when they were younger. Will Rebecca allow herself to give them a second chance.

I enjoyed reading this book and would recommend it.

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