Awakened by her Bear by Felicity Heaton [Review]

Awakened by her Bear (Black Ridge Bears #5) by Felicity Heaton
Format: ebook
Source: provided for review
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Date read: October 3, 2021

Black Ridge Bears
1. Stolen by her Bear
2. Rescued by her Bear
3. Saved by her Bear
4. Unleashed by her Bear
5. Awakened by her Bear - Paperback | Kindle

Felicity Heaton
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Decades in captivity and hundreds of fights in the arena have moulded Maverick into a bear with a bad attitude and a dark hunger for violence. Twenty years later and he’s still trying to let go of his past and move on, but a phone call sets him on a collision course with a female from his time at the compound—the one female he always wanted but could never have, and thought he would never see again—a beautiful bear who stirs desires best denied and wrecks his rigid control.

When Bronwyn receives a video call from an Archangel huntress who has captured her brother, she’ll do anything to save him, even condemn another to suffer in the cages in his place. But when a familiar voice answers the number of the shifter she’s meant to bring in, hurling her back in time and rousing a fierce need that has only been growing in their years apart, can she lie to the only man she’s ever loved and lure him back into hell?

Thoughts on Awakened by her Bear: It's growly, slightly feral Maverick's turn to find his special someone and she's a blast from his past. Given that Bronwyn was too young when they were imprisoned together at the fighting compound for him to realize she WAS his special someone, things are a little sticky for a while. You know, mostly because Maverick was feeling all these emotions (and other things) and he kept trying to convince himself Bronwyn was still a kid.

Which she isn't. At all.

What she is is a grown female trying to save someone important to her in the only way she sees how. Finding out it was Maverick she'd be betraying throws her and being hit by all sorts of possessive thoughts and what have you for him messes her up even further. So she's a little scrambled and makes some questionable choices until her dude stumbles over the truth and they can finally start working together to take care of their problem.

A betrayal or two, a few steamy kisses, a brutal fighting ring, found family, and two people trying to figure out how to make things work despite the obstacles between them. *thumbs up*