Nice and Naughty

By Viola Grace

With Rudolph facing off against Santa, Christmas is on the line, along with her freedom.

Ru was born in a forest and soon recruited by Santa. He wanted her to help harness the remains of long-dead deities. Christmas is coming into fashion in the human world and that is a lot of energy to take advantage of. He moves her back in time, and together, they build the workshop.
Ru has one problem. Santa tricked her and locked the collar around her neck. Her other forms are no longer hers to command, and without them, she can’t be whole.
It has taken her over a thousand years, but she finally has a way to claim her freedom, and if Santa cooperates, Christmas won’t be hurt.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Viola Grace
• Release date: Dec 22, 2015
• ISBN: 9781987969115

Viola Grace

Viola Grace (aka Zenina Masters) is a Canadian sci-fi/paranormal romance writer with ambitions to keep writing for the rest of her life. She specializes in short stories because the thrill of discovery, of all those firsts, is what keeps her writing.An artist who enjoys a story that catches you up, whirls you around and sets you down with a smile on your face is all she endeavours to be. She prefers to leave the drama to those who are better suited to it, she always goes for the cheap laugh.

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With Rudolph facing off against Santa, Christmas is on the line, along with her freedom.

Ru was born in a forest and soon recruited by Santa. He wanted her to help harness the remains of long-dead deities. Christmas is coming into fashion in the human world and that is a lot of energy to take advantage of. He moves her back in time, and together, they build the workshop.

Ru has one problem. Santa tricked her and locked the collar around her neck. Her other forms are no longer hers to command, and without them, she can’t be whole.

It has taken her over a thousand years, but she finally has a way to claim her freedom, and if Santa cooperates, Christmas won’t be hurt.

The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.

Copyright © 2015 by Viola Grace

ISBN: 978-1-987969-11-5

©Cover art by Carmen Waters

All rights reserved. With the exception of review, the reproduction or utilization of this work in whole or in part in any form by electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the express permission of the publisher.

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Nice and Naughty

Operation Reindeer Retrieval Book 9

By

Viola Grace

The Letters

Dear Santa,

Get Bent!

For the last few centuries, we have done everything that you asked of us, and we let you shut us up with only the team for company.

You suck!

We go into heat. Every. Single. Year. Do you know what that does to a bunch of women who sprout horns when they get agitated? I have no good shirts left. They have all been shredded.

Now, I am going to tell you what I want for Christmas, because that is the only thing you seem to understand.

For this Christmas, I want a companion that I can keep all year, every year. I want to be with a man who makes me smile and can hold me in the early hours of the morning when I come in and collapse from work.

My wish is to not be alone. To share my life, such as it is, and I wish for my team to have the same chance at companionship. Ru especially. Ru spends every year keeping our spirits up, distracting us during mating season and running interference with you. She needs a man who respects her for what she does, what she is and just for her.

Love,

Dasher

* * * *

Dear Santa,

Every year, we haul you around and deliver gifts to the good children around the world.

My Christmas wish is that I can meet them. I want to see the excitement building up to Christmas and watch the change in their faces and attitudes.

Doing what we do, we miss that excitement and the anticipation. We never get to see the children that wake up on Christmas morning.

I want to see them before they get the presents. Before Christmas Eve. I need to know who they are.

Now, onto what else I want, I want a chance at love, at a man who can fend for himself so I don’t need