Faunication: Warm Winter Fantasies

By Melisse Aires

Chloe and 'Mr Wicked' Max awake in a forest, magically transformed into fauns--only instead of goat parts, Chloe has rabbit parts! They find a cozy tree root home and don't seem to have a magical quest. As they prepare for a long winter, should they fight their growing attraction for each other or enjoy the heat?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Melisse Aires
• Release date: Nov 13, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386534266

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.

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Blurb

THIS IS A SEXY SHORT romance set in a magic forest in a land far from home. High fantasy spice!

Winter is coming!

Magically transformed and isolated in a cozy tree root home, Chloe and Max must prepare for a long winter. Should they fight their attraction or enjoy the heat?

CHAPTER ONE

IT HAD BEEN A LONG day, her feet hurt, it had started raining while she was waiting for the bus, and the only empty seat was next to Mr. Wicked. Chloe sat down next to him with a sigh. Just my luck.

Sinfully handsome, with natural golden hair streaked with wheat, thin and wiry, with the square shoulders and narrow hips of a gymnast, Mr. Wicked had a gold hoop in one ear and wore t- shirts with the names of cool bands splashed across his chest.

She knew him from her job at the Purple Door, a metaphysical coffee bar and bookstore. His eyes, brilliant blue, long lashed and incredibly sexy, slid over her in a mocking way whenever she took his money. Dark winged brows, like an evil elfI’s, arched in amusement when she fumbled his change. He was around her age, mid- twenties, but somehow, he seemed much older. Dangerous, Chloe thought, with his knowing smile for many of the girls.

Once he purchased a bunch of black candles. Up to some black magic, she was sure. Now she was sitting an inch away from him. He was even more handsome up close, with flawless skin, high cheek bones, full pink lips and a square jaw. Quickly, she looked away, before he could catch her looking at him. She wished she was pretty and exotic, wearing a floaty black gauze top and leather pants. The