Although Lisa is happy with her home and her job as a teacher, she longs for more. She wants a family, but the odds of having a husband children are stacked against her. She's almost thirty, her biological clock is ticking, she seems to always attract the wrong guys, and she has a lot of extra padding on her curves.David, a Kodiak bear shifter, is not looking for his mate and is not happy about chaperoning his nephew's school dance, but the sweet honey-rose scent of his mate changes that. Now he has to convince Lisa he's really attracted to her, as well as the fact he is a bear shifter.But another female has her eyes on David and will do anything to make him hers, even if she has to kill Lisa.Novella (Approximately 25,000 words)Contains explicit sexual content (m f)