Holly Jolly Vampire: Magical Beginnings

By Melisse Aires

Darci's old pal River was forever changed in a terrifying vampire attack. She has not seen him since he was whisked away to a vampire clan. Her life revolved around painful therapy and a lonely existence. She has missed her asthmatic nerdy friend, one she thought might be more than a friend.

 

 But now she has a new job on a task force of human and Others, to work together to keep both communities safe. River joins the task force, a healthy, strong, vampire River.

 

They meet on Christmas Eve at the Encanto Bay Cafe, and decide to go somewhere quieter and talk. Then they hear the wail of a tiny baby.

Short, Sexy, Fluffy Christmas Story 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melisse Aires
• Release date: Nov 28, 2014
• ISBN: 9781502253040

Melisse Aires

Take a shy Catholic school bookworm from Montana. Hand her a stack of her much older brother’s sci-fi and fantasy novels, James Bond books and horror comics. Later, introduce Barbara Cartland and the world of romance fiction.Get her a teaching job or two in authentic, one room Montana schools, ala Laura Ingels Wilder.Marry her off to a great guy, move her to a big city in Tornado Alley, then pop three daughters out of her in twenty-two months (one set of identical twins).Then, make her a jinx. Every great genre TV show she loves gets the ax: Beauty and the Beast, Dark Angel—and Buffy and Spike NEVER have a happy ending! She gets upset about no romance in the world and fires up to write her own stories with happy endings.Throw this all together into a small house in Wyoming, along with a small bouncy dog named Baxter and too many cats, shake constantly and pour it out onto a computer keyboard.There! You have me, Melisse Aires.

Book preview

Acknowledgements

Cover: Melisse Aires 

Stock photos: Pixabay, Canstock Photos, Adobe

Blurb

Darci’s old pal River was forever changed in a terrifying vampire attack. She has not seen him since he was whisked away to a vampire clan. Her life revolved around painful therapy and a lonely existence. She has missed her asthmatic nerdy friend, one she thought might be more than a friend.

But now she has a new job on a task force of human and Others, to work together to keep both communities safe. River joins the task force, a healthy, strong, vampire River.

One night near Christmas they hear the cry of a baby from a dumpster.

––––––––

Books in the same paranormal world:

White Tiger Lover

The Psyvamp and the Professor

Holly Jolly Vampire

Single Mom, Vampire Lover

Related Series: Yet Another Supernatural Apocalypse

Ritual of Fire and Ice

Enchanted Bonds

Newsletter

Please sign up to get emails of new releases and sales.

sendfox.com/melisseaires

Chapter One

Encanto Bay,  Christmas Eve

Darci clicked through the channels on her TV. Her small apartment, not decorated for the season, did not feel festive or even homey. She sat with a cup of lukewarm tea, trying to watch some old holiday movie and not be miserable.

She’d been in  Encanto Bay for a month training for her new desk job, and the holidays were an unwelcome interruption.  Sitting around her tiny apartment all alone for four days was boring and she tried hard not to think about the way Christmas used to be, with Mom and her sister Candi, the presents, the big dinner, the decorations. Next year she’d have a bigger apartment and she’d get Mom’s Christmas decorations out of storage. With her new job, she’d be able to get a nice place or even  save up and buy a small house of her own. A home.

The job was a godsend. The last three years living with her dad and stepmother in LA had been humiliating, and the poverty of her disability check had been depressing. She’d been injured badly in the Incident that took River away. Mom had been gone for more than a year when that happened, but she had been all right, with her tiny apartment just down the street  from River’s tiny apartment. Candi her younger sister had been in the dorms, enjoying college life. And Dad and Doris were mixing another martini, as always, but at least Candi had a place to go on school breaks.