Rod Nolan woke up with a hell of a hangover and a throbbing headache to discover that he seems to have gotten his ear pierced while he was unconscious.

Problem is that the forest ranger and grizzly bear shifter wasn't out all night putting away tequila shots, and the orange tag hanging from his ear is no sexy piece of jewelry. Now he has to find the woman who tranquilized and tagged him while his bear was enjoying an afternoon run in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Sara McAllistar is already preparing her Nobel Prize acceptance speech as she punches the tag through the sleeping grizzly's ear. The first grizzly bear sighted in California since the 1920's! She'll be famous, she'll have all the funding she'll ever need to put together a team of researchers to track and follow the return of the California Grizzly.

But when the new head ranger shows up on her doorstep with a hole through his ear, she realizes California Grizzly is no ordinary discovery-- and he's here to claim his mate.