Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

by Shelly Laurenston

“How can you”—she stepped back to allow a hysterically screaming Stevie to run past her; a snarling Max followed close behind with Berg’s ridiculously happy dog after both of them—“say that when there are bears in my kitchen?” Berg didn’t answer her right away. He was too busy watching Stevie leap up and over the two-car garage behind the house. Max and the dog, sadly, had to run around the garage to get to her. “Wow. She cleared that easy.” “Pay attention to me!” she ordered. And when she had his attention, she said again, “There are bears in my kitchen!” “Yeah . . . so?” She threw up her hands. “In what world is that safe?” “Let’s start with . . . how about no yelling? And you couldn’t be safer than with bears in your kitchen.” “Explain that to me,” she managed to say without raising her voice. “You’re worried about strange guys coming into your house, killing you and Max, and kidnapping Stevie, right?” “That would be the most likely scenario.” “How are they going to get past a bunch of hungry bears in your kitchen?” She opened her mouth to reply, closed it, opened it, then demanded, “What?”

:) Particularly ones that you bake for. :D