Bearward
'Look out for the boars, ' is what her father would always say. 'They could be hiding anywhere-they'll eat you alive without a trace, lest you're careful.'
No one saw fit to warn her about the bears.
When Ursa, for the first time in her life, comes face to face with a wild black-bear, only to have the situation mitigated by a man bearing the same name as the animal, the irony feels absurd yet simultaneously hilarious.
As the two fall in love, Bear's name becomes an inside joke.
It doesn't stay that way.
As seasons turn, Ursa finds herself caught between the life she thought she was building, and the one quietly slithering its roots around her feet, threatening to drag her down with its harsh words, bruising, unrelenting grip, and overpowering presence. All the while, an unexpected connection with the enigmatic Vivienne ends up becoming Ursa's lifeline-a reminder that love and safety aren't concepts to be earned.
Set over the course of a single year, BEARWARD is a novella steeped in the quiet rhythms of the natural world-where the instinctual wisdom of animals carry the weight of omens, and the danger which announces itself may be far less sinister than the danger which instead chooses to approach slowly, withholding its true colours until its got its jaws locked, hungry to swallow us whole.
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