Lucy had been holding Jace off from attempting a war with the bears for months, but the results of his recent business trip begged the question. How much longer could peace hold? Jace was securing a government mining contract on the outskirts of their territory. A place that was now known to border the Bear Mountain Clan. The werebear numbers were still a mystery, but even twenty bears were still a dozen more than anyone ever believed existed prior to Lucy’s encounter with Farrah and her clan. A clan in which bear kind lived together was previously unfathomable. Werebears suffered greatly for a generation. First, at the hands of Alpha Brock, and many still wanted retribution for being hunted as Brock's personal scapegoat. Thereafter, they suffered for hiding in a valley where they could

