Dreaming of a Witch Christmas: Washington Witches (Magical Washington)

By Mindy Klasky

A cozy paranormal romance short story retelling of a holiday classic by USA Today bestselling author Mindy Klasky.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Yuletide…

And newlywed Jane Madison needs to find a gift for her warder David Montrose. A pen set and a necktie would be easy, but those are hardly gifts of the heart. Fortunately, Jane does a little witchy research and discovers the perfect present. But now that she’s found it, she’s not certain she can afford it – in terms of money or of magic! Will Yule turn out to be the most wonderful time of the year? Or is Jane destined for a blue Christmas?

The Washington Witches Series includes:

Girl's Guide to Witchcraft
Sorcery and the Single Girl
Magic and the Modern Girl
Capitol Magic
Single Witch's Survival Guide
Joy of Witchcraft
"Dreaming of a Witch Christmas"
"Nice Witches Don't Swear"

Categories:

Fiction > Cozy Paranormal
Fiction > Cozy Suspense
Fiction > Cozy Mystery
Fiction > Chicklit
Fiction > Chick-lit
Fiction > Fantasy > Comic Fantasy
Fiction > Fantasy > Witches
Fiction > Fantasy > Urban Fantasy
Fiction > Romance > Comic Romance
Fiction > Romance > Contemporary Romance
Fiction > Romance > Humorous Romance
Fiction > Romance > Light Romance
Fiction > Romance > Paranormal Romance
Fiction > Romance > Urban Fantasy
Fiction > Romance > Romantic Comedy
Fiction > Romance > Romcom
Fiction > Romance > Rom-Com
Fiction > Light Women's Fiction
Fiction > Women's Fiction

Similar Authors:

Deanna Chase
Angie Fox
Tonya Kappes
Kristen Painter
Robyn Peterman

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Res Ipsa Press
• Release date: Oct 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781540180902

Mindy Klasky

Mindy Klasky learned to read when her parents shoved a book in her hands and told her that she could travel anywhere in the world through stories. She never forgot that advice. When Mindy isn't "traveling" through writing books, she quilts, cooks and tries to tame the endless to-be-read shelf in her home library. You can visit Mindy at her Web site, www.mindyklasky.com.

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Dreaming of a Witch Christmas

Dreaming of a Witch Christmas

A Washington Witches (Magical Washington) Short Story

Mindy Klasky

Res Ipsa Press

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Dreaming of a Witch Christmas

The weather outside was frightful.

Which made a perfect excuse to be sitting inside, in the Cake Walk bakery, nursing a hot chocolate and trying to keep from snitching the last Hot Spiced Plum mini-cupcake from its pottery plate. Melissa White, the evil baker who’d dreamed up that molasses and caramel confection, did what a best friend should do. She pushed the plate closer and urged me to snitch away.

Maybe I’ll just get David a box of your mini cupcakes, I said, after licking the caramel glaze from my fingertips.

Nothing says First Married Christmas like baked goods, Melissa agreed with a sanguine smile.

Married. After only two weeks of wedded bliss, the word still sent a shiver of pleasure down my spine. I twisted the silver band on my left ring finger.

Melissa consigned the now-empty pottery plate to the sink. As a witch, aren’t you supposed to skip all this Christmas stuff? Isn’t Yule your winter holiday of choice?

I shrugged. Same difference, in a lot of ways. We have a pine tree in the front room, decorated with a lot of sun ornaments to encourage the rebirth of the year. We have a Yule log in the fireplace, decorated with three candles—red, green, and white. I set out bowls of cinnamon sticks and cedar chips, and the pine boughs make the whole place smell like the holidays. I was never real big on mangers and magi and all that traditional Christmas stuff.

You’re just traditional enough to send your students home for a couple of weeks, Melissa smirked.

The Jane Madison Academy is formally on Winter Break, I said primly. My school for witches was about to undergo some major changes, based on a major catastrophe two weeks earlier. But I wasn’t going to dwell on that. Not with two shopping days left before Yule. I knew how to prioritize emergencies. I took another slug of hot chocolate before saying, I’m sure you finished your holiday shopping months ago, Little Miss Organized. What did you get Rob?

Melissa wrinkled her nose. I held off on getting anything, until I knew if he’d make partner at the law firm.

And now that he has? The vote had been held two days earlier. My Birkenstock-clad best friend was thrilled for her husband, but devastated at the thought of attending formal firm events.

"I bought him a membership in one of those