title: Sigma
author: Nicholas, Annie
description: The Vanguards, #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.    ampire 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?   60,000 Words