Bear Guards a collection of four stories based around the shifter sanctuary town, Orville. Striker creates another different world of shifter and vampires and other things that go bump in the night. The council runs the town and keeps the rules strict in order for those seeking sanctuary to find peace from hunters and others who might hurt them, but that doesn't mean Orville is all quiet and peaceful inside the borders. The vampires are supposed to stick to their territory, the shifter to theirs, the witches to theirs on the outskirts of town, and everyone leaves the humans off the menu.Evan: Deana is a human who inherited her grandmother's flower shop and house in Orville, Texas. Needing a break away from the ex she caught sleeping with her roommate in California she thought the little town was going to be a great place to get her head back together and make money until she goes back to Cali. She never expected Evan the bear shifter cop, or the seemingly random vampire attacks, or the fact that there are such things as shifters and vampires and that witches really do have special powers. Evan knew almost immediately Deana was something special, but Deana's hesitancy to start an actual relationship comes from past bad boyfriends and the fact that she was never planning on staying in Orville. Evan needs to find a why to convince her to stay that is if he can keep her alive.
Garrett: Garrett is stuck filling in as Sheriff and comes head to head with Angel, a vampire resident looking to fill a spot on the council. To help maintain peace Garrett along with Angel must help supervise the three new vampires on their probationary time before being allowed permanente residency. At first Angel sets out to make Garrett's time there miserable, but Garrett take sit all in stride and continues to be overly nice. So nice in fact he asks her out on a date. The date changes everything and they both realize the attraction they feel is mutual. They don't act on it until Garrett saves Angel from some stupid shifters who thought to teach her a lesson. Garrett and Angel's future isn't going to be easy a bear and a vampire mated is unheard of and they have a long way to go.
Adam: Hazel is one on the most powerful witches in Orville, along with being a doctor she's also one of the few mingles with everyone. One night Hazel comes home to find a strange shifter in her living room bloody and seriously hurt. Adam is never one to stay in one place long, always on the move because something is always trying to kill him. He came to Orville because he could sense that his mate would be there, no idea who it could be but only that she's in Orville. Because of the uniqueness of Adam's abilities the council agrees the Hazel will be his supervisor during his probationary time. There is a chance that Hazel could be Adam's mate but she doesn't want to be another notch on the bedpost for Adam if she isn't. The evil casing Adam has caught up with them and with Hazel help they manage to fight off the first two waves easily enough but the third one turns to the town and now everyone is a target.
Nikoli: Irene wasn't happy being the towns hermit but it kept everyone safe if they feared her. Nikoli knew she helped when the demons came for Adam and he knew that as the most powerful witch in town she could help again. Irene agrees to help if Nikoli agrees to keep her secret. The more Nikoli spends with Irene learning her secrets the more he falls for her, never much of the one woman man he finds himself no longer interested in anyone else but her. He soon realizes that she's his mate and now all he has to do is protect her in the upcoming battle and convince her he's the only man for her.
Overall, I really enjoyed this one, Evan was a nice introduction into the series and Garrett was an indepth look at the animosity between the groups and Adam and Nikoli were the intense ones where they proved that everyone could work together to save the town. The romance was hot, loved Adam and Hazel, and the story was really good. It's basically one story divided into four parts. If Striker writes more about Orville I will gladly read those too.
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