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    A Wolf For Christmas: Inklet, #48
    A Wolf For Christmas: Inklet, #48
    A Wolf For Christmas: Inklet, #48
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    A Wolf For Christmas: Inklet, #48

    By Amy Laurens

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    Kitty's husband returns from the magical war distant and reserved. To help him recover, she plans the perfect—albeit belated—Christmas.
    Red and gold ornaments. Boxes with bows. She hopes her husband loves everything, even the present under the tree that, well, wriggles.

    But Doug can smell it from all the way across the room. And he doesn't like what he smells.

    Does this spell the end of their relationship after all?

    A richly-imagined, private moment in a world where people can choose to be transformed for the sake of their country—for everyone who wants to believe that soldiers deserve a happy ending.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInkprint Press
    Release dateDec 15, 2020
    ISBN9781393738862
    A Wolf For Christmas: Inklet, #48
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    Amy Laurens

    AMY LAURENS is an Australian author of fantasy fiction for all ages. Her story Bones Of The Sea, about creepy carnivorous mist and bone curses, won the 2021 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novella. Amy has also written the award-winning portal-fantasy Sanctuary series about Edge, a 13-year-old girl forced to move to a small country town because of witness protection (the first book is Where Shadows Rise), the humorous fantasy Kaditeos series, following newly graduated Evil Overlord Mercury as she attempts to acquire a castle, the young adult series Storm Foxes, about love and magic and family in small town Australia, and a whole host of non-fiction, both for writers AND for people who don’t live with constant voices in their heads. Other interesting details? Let’s see. Amy lives with her husband and two kids in suburban Canberra. She used to be a high-school English teacher, and she was once chewed on by a lion. (The two are unrelated. It was her right thumb.) Amy loves chocolate but her body despises it; she has a vegetable garden that mostly thrives on neglect; and owns enough books to be considered a library. Of course. Oh, and she also makes rather fancy cakes in her spare time. She’s on all the usual social media channels as @ByAmyLaurens, but you’ve got the best chance of actually getting a response on Instagram or the contact form on her website. <3

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      A Wolf For Christmas - Amy Laurens

      A Wolf For Christmas

      INKLET #48

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      AMY LAURENS

      www.InkprintPress.com

      A Wolf For Christmas

      Kitty, Doug said as he stopped at the far side of the all-white kitchen, beige towel slung low around his hips, dark hair still damp and tousled from the shower. Why does my lounge room smell like dog?

      I shrugged nonchalantly from my spot on the thick grey rug, trying to keep the sparkle from my eyes and the nerves from my heartbeat—and trying not to give in to the temptation to hunker down out of sight behind the wrap-around couch. Please don’t hate me, I thought at him. Please don’t hate me.

      It was possible, of course, that he already did. He’d been gone six months after all, and everyone knew the front lines changed people, messed with their heads, broke them down.

      Oh, he’d seemed okay for the most part since he’d returned, a gleam still there in his amber eyes, the hint of a strut in his walk, confidence in the set of his strong, well-defined shoulders.

      But he hadn’t wanted to be close to me for long, hadn’t wanted to touch me, and the voices that had been slowly growing in volume for the last half a year reached fever pitch: He doesn’t love you anymore. He found someone else. Someone who knows what it’s like.

      Doug inhaled deeply, doing all sorts of pleasant things to his chiselled pecs and shoulders, and snorted. I can definitely smell dog.

      The white benchtops in the kitchen were so clean they practically sparkled in the light from the skylight; the floor was almost a mirror with its polished white tiles. I could still vaguely catch the scent of the pine-o-fresh floor cleaner I’d used two hours ago, though it was mostly overpowered by the smell of the roasting leg of lamb in the oven (marrying Doug had definitely made my regular senses sharper, that was for sure, even if I was as locked out as ever from anything supernatural).

      The lamb even had a homemade basting sauce, and there were

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