Frosty Relations

By Tara Quan

Attorney Jack Frost never understood why holidays did weird things to people. His secretary went on vacation, his best friend ditched their annual Aspen trip, and the law firm’s stubborn human resources assistant refuses his clerical support request. What’s a warlock to do on Christmas Eve but go on a 1-Night Stand? But when an oddly familiar empath shows up as his date, this ice mage has a hard time denying the magic of the winter solstice.

Faced with an anemic employment market and financial woes, college graduate and former witch Mina Mao lands an HR assistant job at Frost and Sons. Having spent her day saving Christmas from Frost Junior’s Grinch-like behavior, she accepts the gift of Madame Eve’s service and heads over to the Castillo Capital. When her date turns out to be her childhood crush and workplace nemesis, she braces herself for the sexiest icy ride of her life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Nov 21, 2014
• ISBN: 9781613337646

Tara Quan

Globetrotter, lover of languages, and romance author, Tara Quan has an addiction for crafting tales with a pinch of spice and a smidgen of kink. Inspired by her travels, Tara enjoys tossing her kick-ass heroines and alpha males into exotic contemporary locales, fantasy worlds, and post-apocalyptic futures. Armed with magical powers or conventional weapons, her characters are guaranteed a suspenseful and sensual ride, as well as their own happily ever after

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Frosty Relations

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Copyright © 2014 by Tara Quan

ISBN: 978-1-61333-764-6

Cover art by Mina Carter

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~Dedication~

To everyone who’s had to transcribe a dictation.

Chapter One

Flexing her tired feet under the old wooden desk, Mina Mao stared at the image of a ten-foot-tall ice sculpture of Godzilla situated in the center of the World War II Memorial. In honor of tomorrow, the monster sported a Santa hat and held a Christmas tree between his two claws like a cigar. The Washington Herald’s headline read: The Ice Maestro Wishes D.C. a Happy Holiday!

Stifling a very unladylike laugh, she peered over the top of her computer screen to make sure no one stood in her office doorway. As the person in charge of monitoring everyone’s Internet usage, she didn’t want to set a bad example. But she’d been called in to Frost and Sons, LLP at 5:00 a.m. on Christmas Eve because of a stupid server glitch, and the problem hadn’t resolved itself until half-past eight. By then, the law firm’s staff had filtered in, forcing her to spend the next four hours addressing one computer crisis after another.

A combination of her Asian ethnicity and early-twenties age bracket somehow landed her the role of de facto tech troubleshooter despite her fresh-off-the-press bachelors in psychology, her official position in Human Resources, and her relevant experience being limited to planning LAN parties. Thank goodness, most problems here centered on jammed Escape keys, dislodged power and monitor cords, unapproved installation of screensavers released in the late nineties, and continued confusion over why Word Perfect shortcuts had disastrous effects in Microsoft Office.

Having snagged a spare moment to sit and enjoy a mug of tea, she couldn’t resist googling what the infamous Ice Maestro had been up to. Checking out his newest creations had become a Hump Day bright spot. Smack dab in the middle of every boring week, Wednesdays used to arrive in tandem with extreme fatigue and disheartening loneliness. This winter, they came with a hilarious photo she could set as her desktop background to cheer her through an inbox full of unread e-mails.

Irreverent and audacious, the anonymous artist seemed to share her twisted and oftentimes politically incorrect sense of humor. Having just created the fifth masterpiece in his series of frozen art, D.C.’s most notorious vandal had gained a cult following and inspired an army of copycats. With #ICEMaestro trending on Twitter, these sculptures garnered more publicity than the president pardoning a Thanksgiving turkey.

She had always gotten a kick out of the lengths people went through to explain away the supernatural, and the 24-hour cable news cycle seemed to make reporters take guesswork to a whole new level of creativity. Last night, Fox News had hypothesized the sculptures were part of a government conspiracy to distract the public from yet another economic downturn, while CNN suggested the possibility of extraterrestrial activity.

She couldn’t help but admire the artist’s brass balls. While the younger subsection of the magical community laughed their butts off, the Mage’s Council must be having a conniption fit. Made up of old-school warlocks and witches who still believed in secrecy, animal sacrifice, and pentagrams drawn in blood, the traditional hocus-pocus crowd tended to get cagey whenever overt displays of magic hit the mainstream press. Whoever created these marvels—one of which was a life-sized Edward Snowden mooning the White House—skated on thin ice.

Then again, the kind of raw, elemental energy it took to conjure these gigantic sculptures meant the perpetrator had enough power to give the Council a big middle finger. Reining him in might spawn more problems than letting the antics slide. After all, the most popular theory circling the blogosphere claimed these sculptures were part of a publicity stunt by Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. Not a single news outlet had, as yet, used the word magic.

A knock startled her. Jumping in her seat, she glanced up to find Angela, a near-sighted but competent legal assistant in her mid-fifties, striding over to her desk.

Mina breathed a sigh of relief as she minimized her Internet browser. Hi there. Need something?

I know it’s ten minutes before one, but the Comma Hitler moseyed home. Mind if this old gal gets a head start on Christmas?

Though a Human Resources assistant with less than three months on the

Reviews for Frosty Relations

[naturalbri-1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What I ThoughtI loved the first A Witch's Night Out Book, and this book is just the same- short, sweet and very steamy! Quan has a way with making a short read as steamy, detailed and fun as possible. This book we are with the Frost's, who just so happen to hate Christmas. Throw in the lovely Mina Mao, and we soon have a Christmas worth remembering!After the Frosts make Mina's holiday a spoil, she makes her way to the famed Madame Eve's services for a memorable night. She didn't expect the night to have an added amount of heat, from her being partnered with her nemesis. We read along as they battle, yet find each other ultimately attractive. Once again, I found the writing and pace ultimately perfect. The speed at which we fall into this romance is excellent. I was kept on the edge of my seat and couldn't wait to see just where the two went next. The length of this book, just like the rest of Quan's reads makes it brilliant. I can read them in one sitting and wholeheartedly enjoy it. I highly recommend this book, as well as the rest of the series!