A Little Elfin' Around: Dragon Guard Holiday Love Stories, #2

By Julia Mills

Did you know a Witch cannot ride her broom with a broken leg? Well, it's true. I have one. I should know.

 

Christmas Eve is on the way. I'm the one and only Keeper of the Christmas Star, the Curator of the Crystal Forest, the one Witch in all the world with the ability to give the Christmas Star the special Brown Family whammy-abracadabra-hocus pocus to light the way for Santa's yearly sojourn…

And I have a broken leg that just won't heal.

 

As if things weren't bad enough, Edgar, my frumptastic-but-lovable Familiar, a rather cranky one-thousand-three-hundred-and-forty-seven-year-old Christmas Elf, swears I've been cursed.

Can you imagine? Me? The fantasticness that is Ella Elizabeth Brown cursed? It's just not possible.

 

But…

There have been an inordinate number of spiders lurking about my little cottage in the woods.

I have been a little more klutzy than usual.

And my daily phone call with my cousin, Molly, was hijacked by the Dragon of my dreams.

 

Could Edgar be right?

 

This a mystery that must be solved.

Time to pull out all the stops, whip up all the Magic, and swallow my pride.

I need help, and it comes in a great big package with wings and gorgeous golden and red scales.

 

Hold onto your stockings, my friends. This is one Holiday story you don't want to miss.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Julia Mills
• Release date: Jan 22, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224762378

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A Little Elfin’ Around

Copyright © 2020 by Julia Mills, Author

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DISCLAIMER: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictional manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

NOTICE: This is an adult erotic paranormal romance with love scenes and mature situations. It is only intended for adult readers over the age of 18

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A LITTLE ELFIN’ AROUND

Did you know a Witch cannot ride her broom with a broken leg? Well, it’s true. I have one. I should know.

Christmas Eve is on the way. I’m the one and only Keeper of the Christmas Star, the Curator of the Crystal Forest, the one Witch in all the world with the ability to give the Christmas Star the special Brown Family whammy-abracadabra-hocus pocus to light the way for Santa’s yearly sojourn…

And I have a broken leg that just won’t heal.

As if things weren’t bad enough, Edgar, my frumptastic-but-lovable Familiar, a rather cranky one-thousand-three-hundred-and-forty-seven-year-old Christmas Elf, swears I’ve been cursed.

Can you imagine? Me? The fantasticness that is Ella Elizabeth Brown cursed? It’s just not possible.

But…

There have been an inordinate number of spiders lurking about my little cottage in the woods.

I have been a little more klutzy than usual.

And my daily phone call with my cousin, Molly, was hijacked by the Dragon of my dreams.

Could Edgar be right?

This a mystery that must be solved.

Time to pull out all the stops, whip up all the Magic, and swallow my pride.

I need help, and it comes in a great big package with wings and gorgeous golden and red scales.

Hold onto your stockings, my friends. This is one Holiday story you don’t want to miss.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

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The Story that Started the Whole Dragon Guard Series

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1

L ook, I sighed. I appreciate the offer. Really, I do. I’m just not sure that Christmas in the Swamp – in Nowhere, USA- is what I need. I’ve got at least three more appointments with Dr. Bombay and his Magical Healing Machine. I have to get the special cookies that keep Santa from gaining weight baked, cooled, and iced. I need to make sure the Christmas Star Crystals are fermenting on schedule. Being the Keeper of the Christmas Star, the Witch in charge of making sure the hope of the world never dries up is something I take seriously, and this is my busiest time of the year. I mean...

You mean, you don’t want to bump into Liam Archer while hobbling around on your designer candy cane crutches – that I magicked up for you - with a broken leg that won’t heal thus making it impossible for you to run the other way with your wand tucked between your legs and your cheeks – the ones on your face – a brilliant and bright red, she pointedly assessed, not sparing my feelings the littlest bit.

(Yes, I love my family, but they pull no punches…ever… and Molly was one of the most direct of the bunch.)

Speaking of Molly Brown-Archer, the aforementioned cousin, let me be clear. I adore her. We are closer than most sisters. She is wonderful and loving and the one and only Molly Brown of Nowhere, USA, Famed Witch of Halloween, the Keeper of the Sacred Pumpkin, and the purveyor of none other than the amazing and fantastic Brown Family Party-stravaganza…

(I just cannot say that whole name right now, and I can’t bad mouth it either because, well, I don’t want to get cursed. I mean, all I’d have to do is utter a single word against the title - Brown Family Pumpkin Patch Pick-A-Beauty and Win a Jack-O-Lantern for Life Party-stravaganza - and bingo-bango, I’d be a white rat. No questions asked. No way to turn me back into the gorgeous-in-her-own-mind, curvy-in-all-the-right-places-and-others-that-we-won’t-mention, sometimes mouthy and always sarcastic fantasticness that is Ella Brown. As you can probably guess but I want to be sure you know, my ancestors did not play nice. When they gave something a name, they meant for it to be revered, not snickered at.

A broken leg that won’t heal a month before Christmas Eve is bad enough for the one and only Brown Family Christmas Witch. Can you imagine what I’d look like as a white rat hobbling around on candy-cane crutches? I’m not even sure I could ride my broom to light the North Star. That’s my job, for the sake of all the holly berries in all the bushes in all the world! How would Santa have the light he needed to complete his yearly sojourn if I didn’t give it my special whammy-abracadabra-hocus pocus with the Brown Family Christmas Witch sparklies? Everybody in the whole damn world would be simultaneously laughing at me while sending out the lynch mob who was boisterously chanting ‘Burn the Witch’. Not a pretty picture, but I digress…)

As, I was saying, Molly Brown-Archer is amazing and along with all the aforementioned attributes is also the Keeper of the Sacred Pumpkin, and also just happens to be the very pregnant Mate to a Dragon who is super nice and a wonderful addition to our family.

(Yes, they just got back together on Halloween after many years apart. No, not a damned one of us can figure out how she got so pregnant so quickly, but Dr. Bombay says momma and baby are healthy and everything is good, and that’s what’s important.)

This has nothing to do with Liam.

(Yes, I was lying. How could I tell my cousin that her very own brother-in-law made me crazy with lust and think about the whole Mate thing that I may have been giving her shit about since she and Nate got together. Nope, I wasn’t about to admit anything to Molly. She would never let me live it down. Worse than that, she would try to play Cupid. Can I get