Melting Frost

By Kelly Daniels

Bitter and lonely, Jack Frost wishes for a special holiday - one filled with family and friends, but it was impossible. His usual solitary travels leave him wandering from window to window, watching happy folks celebrate the holiday season, which only hardens his resolve, until he spots a car slide off the road into a ditch...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Dec 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781936394562

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Melting Frost

by

Kelly Daniels

Smashwords Edition Copyright © 2010 by Kelly Daniels

ISBN: 978-1-936394-56-2

Cover art by Dara England

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~DEDICATION~

For Holly

Chapter One

"I’ll be home for Christmas; you can plan on me…." Rory sang happily along with the radio as she drove over the dark country highway. The full moon illuminated the snow-covered fields, creating a silvery winter wonderland. In two more hours, she would be home and surrounded by the family she so dearly missed.

It had been six months since she’d seen her family, and she relished the chance to spend a full week with them. Her sister and brother-in-law would be there with their twins and her brother had returned after spending the last two Christmases in Iraq.

She glanced at the dashboard clock. Twelve-fifteen. As usual, she was running late but it didn’t matter. Now it was officially Christmas Eve, she couldn’t be happier.

"…I’ll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams." She continued to sing as her cell phone rang on the seat next to her. As she reached for it, she glanced at the screen and smiled. Her brother’s name appeared on the caller ID. He was probably calling to give her a hard time about being late and trying to figure out when she’d arrive so he could wait outside with a pile of snowballs. She had named him her own personal Grinch, but the fact he had made it home from war softened her towards his antics. Even if it meant a noogie or wedgie, she was going to give him the bear hug of his life.

She flipped open the phone and held it to her ear. Scotty!

Merry Christmas, her brother’s voice cut in and out