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Category: Romance/Fantasy
Description: The Vanguards: Book 5 To defend and protect, at any cost. Sam is Sigma of his pack, defender of the innocent and frail. Too bad the one time it mattered most, though the urge to guard the weak runs strong in his shifter blood, he failed to protect his best friend from an attack. Just when his self-confidence can't go any lower, he becomes entangled in a vampire skirmish and is left with an injured female in his arms. Vampire accountant for Pal Robi, Inc., Clementine can't believe her master would ask her to commit corporate espionage. She's shot when discovered, but a shifter comes to her rescue. It's as if he's made of her fantasies, and in the few hours with him she lives more than the decades she's spent among her clan. Hiding with him on the streets of Chicago, in the midst of fighting together to stay alive, can a petite vampire break through her hero's jaded heart? WARNING: Hot dominating sex, an action packed evening, and a first date gone all to hell. A Lyrical Press Paranormal Romance
eBook Publisher: Lyrical Press, Inc., 2012 2012
eBookwise Release Date: July 2012

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Available eBook Formats: OEBFF Format (IMP) [123 KB]
Words: 26055
Reading time: 74-104 min.

"Help me up. They can't get me." Her words came out halted, between gasps.

"Stay still. I'll call for help." Sam slipped his hands around her slight build and stroked the hair from her face. "You've been shot. You need a hospital, you're going into shock."

She shook her head. "Bullets hurt, but they missed my heart." Delicate fangs flashed between her rosebud lips as she spoke. "My master is on the way."

He blinked. He'd landed in the center of a vampire squabble. Of all the stupid things he could have done, this topped the list. Eric, his alpha, would help Daedalus skin him. Scooping the female in his arms, he carried her back to his car while shaking his head. "There are other ways to settle differences besides guns. What if a human had been caught in the cross fire?"

One of the gunmen rolled onto his knees.

Without breaking stride, Sam kicked him in the head with a satisfying crunch. Pain raced through his bare foot and he grimaced, but the hurt was worth it. He twisted at the sound of screeching tires. "I hope this is your master. I don't think I can shift again so soon."