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Befriending the Bear

Forestville Silver Foxes, Book 6

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Befriending the Bear

By: Nora Phoenix
Narrated by: Michael Dean
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Some fires you fight, some you let burn. With Calloway, all I want to do is feed the flames.

After thirty years as a firefighter and smokejumper, I’ve been forced into retirement by my injuries. Settling in Forestville was an easy decision, but what comes next? I have no clue who I am outside of my job.

When I meet Calloway, I recognize a kindred spirit. He’s hurting too, though for very different reasons. I wanna hug him, help him, hold him…and kiss the living daylights out of him because, god, he’s gorgeous.

But Calloway has created firebreaks around himself that are a bigger challenge than any burn I’ve ever faced. It’s gonna take time to convince him I’ll be a good friend…and an even better lover.

I've jumped out of planes into thousand-acre fires. Falling for Calloway? That's the scariest thing I've ever done. And I'm doing it without a parachute.

Befriending the Bear is a slow-burn, friends-to-lovers MM romance between two older guys who find comfort with each other. This gay romance novel is the sixth book in the Forestville Silver Foxes series, a contemporary small town MM romance series featuring hot silver foxes and the men who fall in love with them. Each book can be listened to as a standalone.

©2025 Nora Phoenix (P)2025 Nora Phoenix
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This read is a quiet, poignant read intertwined with friendship, healing from grief and opening your heart again.

These two have each lived a life, faced loss and change and are learning to adapt to their new lives. Fraser is recovering from injury and the life he's always known. Calloway is in the thickness of grief of losing his husband.
They meet by chance and start a quiet friendship with care, love and kinship.
Their friendship is their foundation and I feel Nora did a fantastic job of fostering this friendship into something deep over so little time.

Calloway's stutter was great representation. He's not broken, never was, just different and there's nothing wrong with different. Fraser's non-reaction to Calloway's stutter and quirks made these two that much more perfect. They respond to each other's silence.

This is a beautiful book and even if you haven't read the others in the series this one is gold!

heartfelt, healing and quiet acceptance.

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