A Wolf to Watch Over Me: Wolves of Fenrir, #1

By Sela Carsen

Lauren Ivers should be home, reading and eating take-out. Or in her lab, working on new ideas in post-quantum theory. Instead, she’s on the run with the bodyguard she didn’t know she had in a desperate bid to get off-planet before she becomes a casualty in an intergalactic war. She’s sure it’s just the adrenaline that has her reacting to her oversized protector with smart-mouthed replies and a full-bodied zing she wills herself to ignore.

Hakon sidUlfr, a wolf-shifter from another world, and Lauren’s covert bodyguard, is determined to keep her safe from the Axis aliens hunting her. Not because she’s a duty, but because there’s something about her that calls to all his primitive and protective instincts. It’s a distraction he can’t afford as he works to sneak a single, small human across unfamiliar terrain.

When Hakon is injured, Lauren realizes that while he was protecting her body, she should have been protecting her heart.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Mondarbre Press
• Release date: Jul 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781513005799

Sela Carsen

Sela Carsen is a busy wife and mom of two teens who frequently finds her best time to write is when she ought to be sleeping. Born in Texas and raised globally, she now lives in the Midwest with her family, including her mother and their Boxer, Oliver. She's been writing since 2002 when those first words were written in the steam on the shower door. She soon found a more durable format and has been writing ever since.

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A WOLF TO WATCH OVER ME

LAUREN IVERS SHOULD be home, reading and eating take-out. Or in her lab,working on new ideas in post-quantum theory. Instead, she’s on the run with the bodyguard she didn’t know she had in a desperate bid to get off-planet before she becomes a casualty in an intergalactic war. She’s sure it’s just the adrenaline that has her reacting to her oversized protector with smart-mouthed replies and a full-bodied zing she wills herself to ignore.

Hakon sidUlfr, a wolf-shifter from another world, and Lauren’s covert bodyguard, is determined to keep her safe from the Axis aliens hunting her. Not because she’s a duty, but because there’s something about her that calls to all his primitive and protective instincts. It’s a distraction he can’t afford as he works to sneak a single, small human across unfamiliar terrain.

When Hakon is injured, Lauren realizes that while he was protecting her body, she should have been protecting her heart.

Chapter One

BY THE YEAR 2225, HUMANS had come a long way. Colonizing a habitable planet in the Cygnus constellation drew the attention of the intelligent life for which they'd been so diligently searching.

New neighbors brought innumerable benefits to humanity, but also a few problems. Earth was drawn into their new allies’ conflicts, and the enemy Cancri Axis, defeated after a lengthy conflict, hadn’t entirely given up the battle. They wasted no time in identifying humanity’s strengths and weaknesses and hitting where it hurt.

Broadening Earth’s frontiers necessitated a crash course in inter-alien relations when various species began to move and mingle on Earth the way humans were now exploring the outer reaches of far-flung territories. The people of Earth were no longer startled at the sight of the lupine Fenrir or ethereal Talvo who roamed their cities and towns.

Well, Hakon gave the humans a little leeway. It was hard not to notice a man who stood a foot taller than anyone else in the street, even when he wasn't in the vargulf form into which each Fenrir could shift. It wasn't as if he had the face of a poet, either. He looked exactly like what he was – a killer.

But right now, he was here to protect. It was out of his realm of expertise, and it soured his mood. If he hadn’t been personally called by his brother, the háranför of the Fenrir Army in a defensive orbit around Earth, he’d be happily assassinating enemies on the other end of the galaxy. But no, his commander had put him on babysitting duty, and for a human, no less.

Lauren Ivers was an innovator in alternatives to post-quantum theory, and the daughter of a politically powerful human family. She was also an unwitting pawn in the cold war that continued to smolder even after the Cancri had been defeated. As a scientist, her capture would give the enemy highly classified information. As a member of political royalty, her death