Christmas with the Pack

By Crystal Dawn

Jackson has brought some of his pack to visit Blake and Ariel. Christmas will be exciting this year and he hopes to find his match while he's there.
Greta has missed several Christmases but she's finally making it home for the holidays. Ariel is like a mother to her and she knows she would never steer her wrong, but would she match her up?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Crystal Dawn
• Release date: Dec 21, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370624799

Crystal Dawn

When she’s not out hunting rogue vampires and werewolves, you can find Crystal Dawn out exploring the galaxy. She can do it all without ever leaving her computer. She kicks ass, takes names, and puts it all down for the enjoyment of her readers. At least that’s what I think she told me. Writing came as a natural outlet for her overly creative mind. She has always told stories and even written some but publishing books didn't start until 2012 with The Rebirth, was the first of the Planet Amazon books. Crystal has also been lucky to have some wonderful beta readers who keep her on track and help inspire her.Secretly, she crushes on all her sexy heroes because all her stories end happily. That is one of the things that makes writing such a joy. Knowing that it makes her reader's day a little brighter. Not that she doesn't read sad books sometimes. While still in school, she read Where the Red Fern Grows and cried like a baby. It was a wonderful book and sometimes a bit of sadness has to be put in books because that's part of life. While she reads all kinds of books at some time or another, PNR and SFR, which she writes is what she reads the most for pleasure.When she started writing, she decided on going Indie after the first two books because an author has more control. She believes Indie will compete well and continues to grow. The need to give pleasure to her readers keeps her going and she sees a long career ahead. Growing up mostly in the NW Arkansas area, it has given her a good place to set some stories and many of her characters come from there or nearby SW Missouri.The start of her stories is the easy part. Finishing them is a little harder when all the stories are in there trying to get out. She loves reading, chocolate, fine sweet wine, and traveling among a large list of pursuits. Her favorite people, after her family and close friends, are her readers who she says are some of the most wonderful people in this galaxy and the next.

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Christmas with the Pack

Book 1

A Wolfish Holiday series

By Crystal Dawn

@ Copyright 2017 Crystal Dawn

Cover by Eagle Eye Covers

Editing by Eagle Editing

Dedicated to my late grandnephew Lane. Fifteen is too

young to die.

Go rest easy with the angels.

This book is a work of fiction. All contents,

including names, places, and events are

the

product of the author’s imagination or

used in a fictitious manner. Any

resemblance to persons, living or

deceased, or to businesses, locations or

events are completely coincidental.

None of this work may be used,

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anyone, except the person the book was

purchased for. Any reproductions of this

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Thank you for respecting the work of this

author.

Dedicated to my readers who make

writing

worthwhile.

Dedicated to my late grandnephew Lane. Fifteen is too

young to die.

Go rest easy with the angels

This is a spinoff of the Legends of the White Werewolf series.

Legend of the White Werewolf-

The Forgotten Ones

Ariel, a divorced mother of two and a bestselling author, meets Blake at a bar. The two are attracted to each other and eventually come together. Ariel discovers that Blake is a werewolf and he has turned her into one as well. Blake discovers Ariel is the famous writer that has been publishing accurate werewolf romances and his council has been trying to find her for some time. When Ariel makes the change to wolf, everyone finds out that she is a white wolf, part of the legendary line thought extinct.

Now Ariel’s family may be in danger for their bloodline is sought after by every unmated alpha. Ariel herself is targeted by a group called the forgotten ones who had faded into the background, but now show themselves again hoping to use Ariel or her family to rise to power and eventually rule the world like they always hoped to. As if being targeted by obsessive outcasts from the wolf world isn’t enough, the reason Blake was in her corner of the world was to set up a pack. His brother Drake is their alpha, but the pack has grown too large for the resources available to them where they are. Rather than move the whole pack, they decide to divide into two packs. Half stay with Drake and half go with Blake. Through the danger, abductions, the stress of starting a new pack, a vicious ex-girlfriend, and all the difficulties of a dramatic change from human to wolf, Blake and Ariel find their love is strong. They build their new pack along with their new relationship letting nothing hold them back.

Prologue

Jackson Kieffer was never lonelier than around the holidays. He was the last of his family, as far as he knew. His mother had either died or left, his father told the story differently each time Jackson had asked as a young pup until he stopped asking. His father had died in an alpha challenge, one Jackson should have made since he knew he could beat his dad but had never bothered.

He’d quickly challenged the male that had beat his father and killed him in that fight. Then he had run his pack making it a large and successful one. Jackson ran the Northern Arizona pack and he did it without a mate although his wolf yearned for one. This year he would spend a week or so with the pack the white wolf and her mate ran. Ariel had invited him and a few of his unmated males to join them for the holidays.

It was an invitation of great value and his males had fought over the chance to go. That was the fairest way to decided. Here they were near Arkansas where Ariel’s home was, and they were in a large tent with snow all around sleeping in cots that were more comfortable than expected. The advice given was if you want to sleep in a real bed find an accommodating female.

So far about half his males had. He wasn’t one of them, but they’d only been here one full day. It was time for breakfast, and he’d see if there were any new arrivals.

Chapter 1

The Gathering

Every year at Christmas there was a family gathering at Aunt Ariel’s house. This had happened every year since Greta had been born and years before. At twenty-four, Greta was a graduate with a business degree and an okay job she neither hated nor loved. She worked in advertising, but not in a business owned by a cousin. Greta wanted to make it on her own.

She’d missed several gatherings, some because while she was in college, she worked all the school breaks and couldn’t take off. The last two were because she’d been low man on the roster and had to work some emergency planning sessions for ads that hadn’t been well received by the clients. This year two new employees had taken her place at the bottom and she was finally getting to go to the family celebration.

Ariel had put her upstairs in a room not usually used, but only for family gatherings where so many people came it was hard to accommodate them all. Now she made her way downstairs early in the morning so she would get the best of the breakfast offerings. Somethings never changed.

Most people were still asleep having stayed up late last night partying. In line, there were only two people, one was a hunky guy. Hey Sally! You and Matt here for the week?

Yes, we snuck away but we may get called back. We live in Springfield now. At least we’re close for visits. Danny’s here with his family too. Sally replied.

I’ve missed so many gatherings in the last few years, I’m glad I could make this one. Greta replied.

It’s hard when life interferes, but Ariel said it’s the biggest gathering ever. Not all the attendees are relatives, but it’ll make for lots of fun. Sally advised.

They both filled their plates and sat at the big table. The hot guy sat closer to her than Sally who sat with her mate, Matt, and their children. Right now, Greta was just trying