BEAR WITH ME

NEW BOOK. Love makes life a little wilder in this rom-com by debut author Katie Shepard. After a panic attack puts him in the hospital, charity executive Teagan Van Zijl is dragged by his sister to a wilderness therapy retreat in Montana. Lost in the woods while absconding from mindafternoon mediations, Teagan is nearly eaten by a bear before his rescue by a furious angel in muddy hiking boots: the programs's handywoman, Darcy Albano, who was mostly worried for the bear. Darcy thought she was going to work as a trail guide when she was hired onto the camp staff, sut shed ended up cleaning and hauling instead-merely the latest screwing-over she's endured since her ex soler her car and her parents ruined her credit score. Teagan becomes the silver lining she didn't expect, a man clearly going through something yet willing to commit to Darcy's unique brand of wilderness education as the for what ails him. After weeks in the mountains with Darcy, Teafan doesn't want to return to New York without her. He hires Darcy as sober companion-a position he doesn't actually need filled and for which Darcy is completely unqualified-hoping she can him figure out a way to move forward. But once they get to the city, all Teagan can think of is how to confess the truth without losing her. Togther, they begin to imagine what their lives might look like if could depend on each other-even in outrunning a bear.