Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grizzly Bait | 2016 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
| 2 | Grizzly Mate | 2016 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
| 3 | Grizzly Fate | 2016 | Keira Blackwood | Buy |
Protectors of Riverwood is one of Keira Blackwood’s earliest series, published in 2016 alongside several other shifter romances that established her voice in the genre. The three books follow members of a bear shifter community in Riverwood, a mountain town where the pack’s role as protectors is taken seriously and the idea of an outsider disrupting that order is both the premise and the problem.
Grizzly Bait, the first book, sets up the world efficiently and gets the romance moving without much preamble, which is typical of Blackwood’s early work. The series trusts readers to keep up and moves at a pace that makes all three books easy to finish in quick succession. The Riverwood setting has the kind of rugged, isolated atmosphere that suits bear shifter stories particularly well.
The three-book arc wraps up cleanly, giving each couple in the pack their story while building a sense of the community as a whole. For readers who want to see where Blackwood’s style began before following it through the midlife magic series and beyond, Protectors of Riverwood is a good starting point from the early part of her catalog.