The last thing curvy human reporter Crystal Wordsworth expected was to end up with an invitation to Seattle's most exclusive charity event, the Asher-Dixon family's Golden Ball...but before she's even had it in her hands for fifteen minutes, she manages to lose the gilded ball shaped invitation when it falls into...a well.When the sexy man she assumes is the gardener fishes the invitation out of the well, it's too late: the invite is ruined. Luckily, the handsome bear shifter, who introduces himself as Damien Michaels, promises to get her into the ball...in exchange for three dates with him, over the next three weeks.It's just three dates: how hard can it be? After all, by now, Crystal has kissed enough frogs and is hoping that Damien might end up being her perfect Prince Charming...The thing is, there's more to big, burly Damien Michaels than meets the eye, and while a carnival, dinner and an opera, and a weekend trip to Port Jameson might be a surefire way to win the heart of any woman, Crystal's not just any woman, and she's about to learn that Damien Michaels is more than the average bear...
Damien Michaels has a secret, namely, that he's Damien Frikkin' Dixon, billionaire bear shifter, and one of the last eligible bachelors in the joint Asher-Dixon Clan. The Asher-Dixon Clan is known for its handsome bachelor billionaire bears, and of course, like any werebear, Damien's looking for a fated mate with curves that could stop a rampaging grizzly in its tracks. When he meets Crystal, he assumes she's paparazzi, but once he learns the BBW's name, all bets are off, as he tries to woo her the old-fashioned way. The only problem is, he's got this pesky secret, and he just can't seem to find the right time to tell Crystal who he really, really is...and will this ruin all chances this big bad werebear has at finding true love, and more importantly, his fated mate?Little do Crystal and Damien realize that behind the scenes, Mother Goose might be the one directing all the players on the stage...with a little help from...a frog...If you love sassy BBWs and bear shifters are what you live for, sexy billionaires are what you dream of, and fated mates are your obsession, check out The Bear Prince (based on The Frog Prince/Iron Henry)! This book is a standalone novel with an HEA and absolutely no cheating or dark and scary parts, part of Seattle's Billionaire Bears, a series of remixed fairy tales set in Port Jameson, featuring the Dixon Clan.