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    A Sprite's Tale (Novella)
    A Sprite's Tale (Novella)
    A Sprite's Tale (Novella)
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    A Sprite's Tale (Novella)

    By Lexxie Couper

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    When an Aussie bushland sprite collides with Santa's nephew on a sunny, isolated Australian beach, the sand won't be the only thing that scorches!

    Having decided his uncle is due for a break, Santa's nephew, Nick, takes on the job of delivering presents and heads straight for the sun–drenched beaches of Australia. After a cataclysmic sleigh disaster with a low–flying Qantas airbus, Nick finds himself rounding up reindeer on an isolated coastal stretch. When all seems lost – including Rudolph – Nick stumbles upon Chrissie, a woman just as mysterious as he.

    Chrissie is an Australian bushland sprite, sent after Nick by his uncle. Santa has made his own decision – it's time for his nephew to settle down, and Chrissie's just the sprite to fill his empty heart.

    Christmas is always hot in Australia, but this year, things are really heating up!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateDec 1, 2013
    ISBN9780857991034
    A Sprite's Tale (Novella)
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    Lexxie Couper

    Lexxie Couper started writing when she was six and hasn't stopped since. She's not a deviant, but she does have a deviant's imagination and a desire to entertain readers with her words. Add the two together and you get erotic romances that can make you laugh, cry, shake with fear or tremble with desire. Sometimes all at once. When she's not submerged in the worlds she creates, Lexxie's life revolves around her family: a husband who thinks she's insane, an indoor cat who likes to stalk shadows, and her daughters, who both utterly captured her heart and changed her life forever. Contact Lexxie at lexxie@lexxiecouper.com, follow her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/lexxie_couper or visit her at www.lexxiecouper.com where she occasionally makes a fool of herself on her blog.

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      A Sprite's Tale (Novella) - Lexxie Couper

      Nick Saint Nicholas

      The rumbling in my gut hit me before the jet did. Well, before the jet’s turbulence did. One second I was skimming through the sky, the cool wind on my face, the next my gut feels like the San Andreas Fault having a bad day. I toss a look over my shoulder, see the Qantas Airbus and think, oh shit.

      Ten seconds later, I’m in a wild spin, heading straight down; sleigh, sack of presents, eight reindeer — plus that red-nosed ninth wheel, Rudolph — and all. Not the perfect situation, I have to say. No wonder my uncle is a jumpy mess come Christmas Eve.

      Ever plummeted through a high-altitude cloudbank while trying to regain control of a sleigh chock-full of presents? It ain’t easy, especially when said cloudbank makes you blink like mad and you’ve left your sunglasses back in your uncle’s workshop at the North Pole, damn it.

      Especially when Rudolph’s nose is flashing like an insane traffic signal, Blitzen is trying to pull right, Donner is trying to pull left and Comet looks like he’s two seconds away from throwing up. Trust me, reindeer vomit is not easy to get out of denim.

      Scrambling for both the wildly flailing reins and the gyro leveler on the sleigh’s control panel, I flicked a quick — and I have to admit, worried — look at the rapidly approaching terrain coming up to meet me. Or rather, the wide stretch of completely isolated beach I was rapidly approaching. If I didn’t get some semblance of control back, my uncle was going to be down one nephew, his only nephew, and a lot of kids were going to wake up Christmas Day sans presents under the tree.

      This wasn’t good. So much for a dream run to warmer skies to give the old man a break.

      Snatching the lashing reins — just — I yanked on the strip of leather. It always cracks me up that my uncle’s sleigh is decked out in technology way beyond human comprehension but he insists on retaining reins to steer the thing. Come to think of it, he probably doesn’t need the four-legged fur-covered propulsion units either, but Santa’s always been a fan of tradition so…

      All right, all right, I hear you. Enough of the back story, Nick. Get back to the situation, already.

      So, I’m heading for a deserted beach somewhere — I think on

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