This Endris Night

By D.L. Jackson

One night. One party of a lifetime. One secret a century old which could end it all.

Shiya, a Yupik supermodel, travels to Alaska in pretense of attending a party where she’ll find the man of her dreams. But her real intent is to lure the man of her nightmares to where she can finally end a deadly game of cat and mouse.

Gunnar is on Earth for one reason—to recover the wreckage of a Doppelganger crash that is scattered for miles, throughout an Alaskan resort and human settlements. In order to get closer to the ship’s debris, he agrees to a date and finds himself face to face with a Terran woman who doesn’t know her genetics are from his world, or that she’s being tracked by someone whose duty is to eliminate all threats to their secret. Shiya’s heritage has placed her at the top of the killer’s list.

Now the only way to save her, is to claim her, and Shiya isn’t about to make it easy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Nov 23, 2011
• ISBN: 9781613330470

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This Endris Night

D.L. Jackson

A 1Night Stand Holiday Story

Smashwords Edition

Copyright © 2011 by D.L. Jackson

ISBN: 978-1-61333-047-0

Cover art by Dara England

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~DEDICATION~

To Mom. You’ve read them all. You inspire me. Always have—always will.

Chapter One

The cold kissed Shiya’s cheeks as the sled raced through the night, gliding across the snow in the Alaskan wilderness. Yeah, she could have arrived like the other guests, by bush plane, but the siren’s call of the icy world had been great, and she needed access to the wilds to put her plan in motion.

It had been too long since she’d last come home. Northern lights danced across the horizon, playing off icicles that gleamed on bent pine boughs—nature’s Christmas trees. Overhead the stars glittered, something she’d rarely seen because of the city lights.

Something she’d missed.

The fur-lined hood of her red parka hid her long black hair and high cheekbones, her Inuit signature features. But not all of her appearance was Yupik. A fling her great-great grandmother had with a white man during the Yukon gold rush in the 1800s resulted in a freakish height of five foot eleven and green eyes that brought summer to the frozen tundra.

Though four generations had passed since her grandmother’s affair, the genetics hadn’t disappeared from her family line, making her a child of two worlds, not quite fitting into either.

Her mother had died giving birth, leaving her not only her name, an Inuit tradition, but her unusual attributes. Shiya was the only one in her tribe still alive who looked the way she did—a blessing and a curse.

Her family didn’t want her here. Shiya had wanted to go to school—move to the city—live like a normal person, be someone other than she’d been raised to be. She’d rejected an arranged marriage, thrown tradition back in her family’s face, and shamed them when she’d left for the city, found a modeling job, and made money off the heritage she’d walked away from.

The Eskimo Supermodel, a term that ostracized her from her people further. She cringed every time she heard it, but chose to ignore her internal reaction to the insult, knowing if she were to survive, she had to fit in.

Fitting in—that went well. Sought out for her appearance, Shiya no longer knew if it were possible to find someone who didn’t want her because of her looks or money. Men hit on her everywhere she went. Overwhelmed by her sudden celebrity status, she’d stopped going out and secluded herself in