[participant in the Royal Road Writathon challenge] Kennedy's default is to opt-out, but she has been forced her to outgrow that inclination to survive. Pregnant, and submerged in the disorienting werebear culture, she will have to use every bit of strength she has to hold her new family together. The love they are growing is green and new. The Mountain folk view her and her men with suspicion for a good reasons. Focused on trying to make things right with the community she placed in danger, Kennedy is oblivious to the evil that is arisings within the human community.  Four good men stand with her, bound to place their lives before her own. But will they be enough? And can she keep them safe... This is the second draft of the sequel to the 2022 Maggie Finalist, In The Woods, Bears. This story will be even BETTER if you read In The Woods, Bears first! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/73610/in-the-woods-bears