Ainsley McLeon is starting a new life. It wasn't exactly well planned out... well not planned at all. When the shot was fired at her she drove straight to the airport and bought the first ticket out. All she had on her were the clothes on her back and money in her wallet. She was also in the wilds of Montana in the middle of a blizzard driving a crappy truck that she's sure she paid too much for. And then she is involved in a car accident when she swerved to miss something in the road. That something that turns out to be ... a tiger? She has no idea that her escape would lead her to come face to face with LIONS, TIGERS AND SEXY BEARS, OH MY!

Luc owns a bar in Clarksville, Montana and he's a bear shifter. The last thing he wants is a sexy little human coming in and messing with his very controlled life. When he refuses to hire her to take the place of his waitress that just went into labor, she simply starts working. She has no choice, her stupid truck will cost money to get repaired and she can't touch any of her credit cards in case the shooters are looking for her.

He can't believe she just started working like he hadn't said anything, but the atmosphere was quickly changed in the bar especially after she laid out one customer for getting too friendly. She has earned the shifters respect. The last thing he wants is someone in his life... he lost his parents, mate and baby ... he didn't want to chance that again. But when this ex-FBI agent gets the full story he knows he's lost. He can't turn her away and he can't let her get hurt again. Something that was told to him years ago comes back to him: "Live in the moment ... and appreciate the time you have." He would do just that. Even if his heart gets broken beyond repair.

LIONS, TIGERS AND SEXY BEARS, OH MY! is in a word fantastic. I've said this a number of times in reviews but I have to say it again ... I could not put this book down. It is very fast paced and full of characters that readers will find endearing and believable. Well maybe not the shifting part but the human parts could be anyone in any small town. Author Candace Havens did not dwell too much on the bad guys but more on the emotional dance that Luc and Ainsley go through together and the atmosphere of the bar and the town. I do hope there are more books along this line by Ms. Havens because I am ready to read them.

Book Summary

A Montana town where no one is who they seem.... Everything about runaway heiress Ainsley McLeon screamed trouble—from her luscious midnight locks to her Louboutin- clad toes. Yet sexy, stoic bar owner Luc couldn’t deny the instant connection he felt to the tempting stranger…or the long-dead feelings she evoked. She could work in his pub until her truck was fixed but after that she had to leave town for good. Ainsley traveled with her own emotional baggage and there was no way she'd fall for the bear-tempered Luc...no matter how many passionate nights she spent in his bed or how safe she felt in his muscular arms. Can these two opposites find love in the middle of a blizzard, or will Luc's darker side and Ainsley's past catch up with them?