Cubs & Campfires

Sweet & Stocky, Book 1

De: Dylan Drakes

Narrado por: Victor Quixabas

A cozy summer romance with low angst and high heat.

Luca Torres, a struggling journalism graduate, never meant to take a vow of celibacy. It was just a dumb idea from a job interview gone wrong. He never thought they'd approve the article. Or make his future career conditional on delivering it.

Now, with no choice but to steer clear of temptation for the summer, he takes the most isolated job he can find: a fire lookout in the rural and picturesque mountains of Washington State.

However, his goal becomes much harder with the arrival of the husky and flirtatious Artair Osmond, a musician and wilderness enthusiast who takes up camp nearby. Now, he must decide what he really desires: his career at the prestigious newspaper or the big, bearded bear he can't get out of his head.

Cubs & Campfires is a sweet and spicy romance about chunky men, cozy woods, and cuddles under starlight.

©2024 Dylan Drakes (P)2025 Podium Audio

Beautiful

A great story with a beautiful ending. The characters, I absolutely loved definitely made me hopeful that love still exist in the world like this.

I LOVED This!

Thank you, Dylan for a story that we rarely, the if ever, get to hear. 4/5 🔥

The Writer and The Red Bear

I loved this book start to finish! It was beautifully written and very detailed without doing too much. The characters were beautiful, and you could sense an immediate connection, not to mention how amazing the spicy stuff is! This book for sure gets a 5 out of 5!

An interesting premise

A well written, sex forward, body positive tale of sweaty nights and, surprisingly, about growing up. While I may not have enjoyed *all* the sex scenes, the story's premise kept me reading the whole way through to see what would happen to the main characters and sticks the ending rather well! In the end it also made me want to go outside and take a hike again thanks to Dylans colorful description of the Pacific Northwest.

So sweet. So stocky

I really enjoyed this one. It made me laugh out loud with the characters banter and relationship build. I can’t wait for more from this author.

JUST WOW!

I never write a review but this audio book was just too good!!! The writing!!! The descriptions of EVERYTHING is just fantastic 👌🏽 🙌🏽 I absolutely recommend this book and the author and the voice actor! All AMAZING 👏🏽 🤩

fantastic

absolutely a joy to listen to. very engaging and thought provoking. can't wait to read the next book

queer/gay cubs/bears being referenced

I love how descriptive it was, not just the x scenes but in the admiration of the mountains, I could close my eyes and picture everything. I kinda didn't like how predictable the ending came, though I'm happy with it, I wished I would keep guessing the unthinkable a bit more.

Refreshing and Sexy

A new favorite author AND narrator! The voice acting for these characters is unique, the delivery emphatic & hilarious & SUPER SEXY at just the right moments. Victor Quixaba truly brought these bears to life in such a joyful way.

These characters are both beautiful and interesting. Together they are exciting and funny and sexy. I thoroughly enjoyed their inopportune nakedness and slow trust, learning that they have something beyond lust that may be worth the risk.

And the baby fox is adorable too!

Cheers to the adventure! Thank you for a wholesome plot and hot scenes — a perfect summer audiobook.

PS. It isn’t just a wilderness meet-cute. It’s also about exploring our own life goals and the limitations we sometimes put on ourselves inadvertently; about re-evaluating ourselves, our dreams, our expectations; to seriously consider what we’re willing to fight for (or sacrifice) versus what we’re willing to adapt to keep in a different way. It’s very thoughtful, in the tradition of a coming-of-age story. 10/10

Absolutely Stunning – I Need More!

Dylan Drakes, you magnificent genius, how dare you write something so utterly breathtaking and then end it? Cubs & Campfires had me hooked from the first page with its warmth, wit, and unbearably sexy tension. Luca and Artair’s chemistry? Off. The. Charts. The romance was beautiful, the setting was dreamy, and the sex scenes? Whew.

Honestly, my only complaint is that I needed more—more pages, more cuddles under the stars, more of Luca being a lovable disaster, and definitely more of Red Bear and his oh-so-charming wilderness magic. I was not ready to say goodbye.

Dylan, if you’re reading this, please take my shameless begging as encouragement to gift the world with a sequel. I’ll be waiting—impatiently, dramatically, and probably re-reading this one while I do.