Blown Away

By Holly Day

Espen Urso would rather stay inside and enjoy a nice, sweet cake than be out in the worst storm of the year. But there’s a group of alpha shifters trespassing, and he needs to defend his territory and keep the people in his village safe. A group of wolf shifters he can scare off, but when he realizes they’ve hurt a defenseless little bird, he loses his patience.

Arvid Rai is having a bad day. He’s an omega on the run, with a group of alphas on his tail. If there hadn’t been a storm, he could have easily flown away before the stupid wolves got their hands on him, or the angry bear noticed he was in his territory. But there is a storm, and the idiot who grabbed him broke his wing, so now he can’t fly anywhere. Still, he deems it best to stay with the growly bear rather than having the other alphas fight over him.

Espen has never believed in the myth of omegas, and it isn’t until he takes Arvid in he realizes how much trouble he’ll be in when shifters from near and far learn he has one in his home. Will he be able to keep Arvid safe from other shifters? Is it even possible to defend his territory with an omega in it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: JMS Books LLC
• Release date: Apr 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781646567683

Holly Day

Holly Day and Sherman Wick are the authors of several books about the Twin Cities. Sherman Wick received his BA in history from the University of Minnesota and has been a member of the Minnesota Historical Society for several decades. Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for local and national publications for over twenty-five years and teaches writing classes at the Loft Literary Center.

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Blown Away

By Holly Day

Published by JMS Books LLC

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Copyright 2021 Holly Day

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Published in the United States of America.

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Thank you Gabi Cervenka, Leonie Duncan, and Susana Perez. I never could’ve done this without you!

Blown Away was written for National Big Wind Day which is on April 12. Back in 1934, Mount Washington Observatory in the US recorded winds at 231 miles per hour. It was the highest natural wind gust measured until 1996 when a typhoon hit an island outside of Australia with wind blasts of 256 miles per hour.

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Blown Away

By Holly Day

Espen Urso sniffed the air and snarled. There were intruders in his territory. He’d known the moment they’d come to town, for a clawing, desperate need to slaughter every shifter within a ten-mile radius had bloomed in him, and he didn’t know why.

He didn’t allow other shifters into his territory. He made sure they understood it was his, and that they weren’t welcome, but normally, he didn’t want to kill them. He did now.

What right did they have to walk on his land? The humans in the town didn’t need any trouble from hot-headed alphas with testosterone leaking from their ears. Espen could scent them. There was a frenzy, and since there were several of them, he suspected it would end in a bloodbath.

The wind made it hard to track scents; the rain attacked him like a swarm of bees defending their honey. He hissed, wishing he’d had honey.

Lumbering through town, he held up his arm to shield his face. The wind was so strong it was impossible to breathe when it came right at him.

He should go home, let whatever was happening with the other alphas play out as it would, but he couldn’t.

They were in his territory.

He roared and hunched his shoulders as the rain attacked his ear and the side of his face. Of all the days strangers chose to trespass, did they have to pick the windiest day of the year? Idiots.

Someone was running toward him, and his arm shot out without thought. He curled his fingers around the man’s throat, his claws threatening to come out as he slammed the man against the wall of the house. He hoped Rosalinda Ayala, who lived in the house, wouldn’t hear him. She made a divine tres leches cake. His stomach rumbled as he recalled the sweet taste.

It made him angrier. If it hadn’t been for these idiots, he could be at home in his nice warm farmhouse, and he could be eating.

Being a bear, he towered over most people both in human and in shifted form, even alpha wolves. When shifted, his teeth might not be as impressive as a wolf’s, but he was bigger and stronger, and his claws could do a lot of damage.

Snarling in the wolf’s face, he met his gaze full on. "Give me