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    What the Sleigh?: Paranormal Protection Agency: Santa Elves, #3
    What the Sleigh?: Paranormal Protection Agency: Santa Elves, #3
    What the Sleigh?: Paranormal Protection Agency: Santa Elves, #3
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    What the Sleigh?: Paranormal Protection Agency: Santa Elves, #3

    By Mina Carter

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    Last Christmas... She didn't give him her heart. Because the b*stard broke it five years ago.

    Well, okay, it's been five years since were-reindeer Rudi left the North Pole and vowed never to have anything to do with Christmas again. Since then she's thrown herself into her work as an operative with the Paranormal Protection Agency and become one of their most trusted operatives. Until someone decides that the holiday season is the perfect time to pull armed heists on a few Santa's Grotto's in the city and relieve some parents of their valuables...

    But the very next day...

    True-blooded Claus elf, and grandson of the original Santa, Nick Claus, knows how well and truly he's screwed things up with Rudi. Not only did one mistake lose him his lover, his childhood sweetheart and his best friend, but now all of the reindeer at the Pole hate him and draw straws to see who has to pull his sleigh. After five years though, he's managed to track her down to the PPA and he's determined to win her back, even if he has to go undercover as Santa to do it.

    Unfortunately there's an armed gang looking to make a killing, maybe literally, and Nick has to make a decision...

    Save Rudi or be Santa. He can't have both.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMina Carter
    Release dateDec 22, 2015
    ISBN9781519943804
    What the Sleigh?: Paranormal Protection Agency: Santa Elves, #3
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    Mina Carter

    Mina Carter was born and raised in Middle Earth (otherwise known as the Midlands, England). After a slew of careers ranging from logistics to land-surveying she can now be found in the wilds of Leicestershire with her husband, daughter and a cat who moved in and never left. Suffering the curse of eternal curiosity, Mina never tires of learning new skills which has led to Aromatherapy, Corsetry, Chain-maille making, Welding, Canoeing, Shooting, and pole-dancing to name but a few. A full-time author and cover artist, Mina can usually be found hunched over a keyboard or graphics tablet, frantically trying to get the images and words in her head out and onto the screen before they drive her mad. She's addicted to coffee and Dairy-lea cheese triangles.

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      What the Sleigh? - Mina Carter

      CHAPTER 1

      W hy do they get all the fucking best jobs? We could’ve been sitting pretty in that upscale Bridgegate mall…instead, we’re hunting fucking blood suckers in shitty alleys. Fucking jumped up prissy Santa wannabes!

      Rudi sighed at her partner, Darrick’s, growl and ducked the wild swing of the vampire in front of her. Darrick, I keep telling you, Cole and Rhod aren’t Santa wannabes. They are Santa. For one night a year, they’re the real deal. Just like the hundreds of other Santa’s in the bloodlines. It’s been two years, when are you gonna get over it?

      Darrick grumbled at her and she chuckled. She wasn’t under any impression he’d seriously been in love with Mia, one of the PPA’s Christmas elves, before she’d picked Cole Claus. Pixies were territorial, so it was more his male pride which had been injured.

      Side-stepping, she twisted and slammed a fist up under the bloodsucker’s chin. His jaw snapped shut with a click, the force of her blow carrying him up into the air in a graceful comic-book style arc to land in an unconscious heap on the other side of the alley.

      Darrick paused for a moment and cast a glance at the crumpled form. Surprise and admiration shone in the Pixie’s eyes. Dayum, girl…you pack a punch. You sure you ain’t got no Valkyrie in you?

      She grinned. None at all. Pure blooded shifter. Sorry.

      A dark figure rose behind him. A vampire with claws extended, mouth open and drool dripping from its fangs. She didn’t bother to raise the alarm. Darrick was a big boy, not to mention a trained operative. If he couldn’t take on a few revenants, then it was a poor showing on his part.

      Without breaking eye contact, he lifted his arm and slammed the back of his fist into the vampire’s face. There was a sharp crack and the scent of blood in the air as its nose went from hooked and prominent to flat as a pancake.

      Pure shifter? His eyes twinkling, he twisted and looped a strong arm around the stunned vampire’s neck. With a powerful twist of his torso and shoulders, he wrenched the creature's head clean from its neck. A fizzle and a pop later and the body dissolved into dust.

      Rudi whistled. She’d worked with Darrick for a few years now, so she knew pixies were total badasses who learned to fight almost before they could walk, but the casual display of strength impressed even her.

      Yup, pure shifter. She turned to survey the carnage in the alleyway.

      They’d trailed the group of revenants across half a block, watching them track a group of human women dressed for a night on the town. Fortunately, they’d been able to head the creatures off into an alley, this alley, before the humans noticed. No great feat there, at times humans were the dumbest beings Rudi had ever encountered. Within minutes, she and Darrick had reduced the group to five piles of ash and one crumpled heap.

      Her companion grumbled under his breath as he stepped over and stopped next to her to look down at the revenant. Are you ever going to tell me what type of shifter you are?

      Nope. She slid him a sideways glance, keeping her smile to herself.

      They’d been playing this game since they’d met. Everyone at the Paranormal Protection Agency knew she was a shifter, but no one knew what sort. At her request, Iliona had sealed Rudi’s personnel file, and she never, ever shifted. Didn’t even pop a tail…

      She was a shifter, yeah. Shifter types were divided into two kinds; Predators and…not predators. The PPA had a lot of predator-type shifters. Their natural aggression and hardiness made them excellent operatives few wanted to take on in a fight. Jared Stone, for example, only had to stroll into the holding room back at base and half the ‘guests’ tried to crawl up their own asses to avoid him. The other half got busy praying to whatever gods they held dear.

      They did the same when she walked in. Over the five years she’d been at the PPA, she’d developed a reputation as a mean bitch with balls of steel. But she wasn’t a predator-type shifter… her inner animal didn’t hunger for the chase and the kill. Instead, the creature inside her longed for the feeling of air through her fur and the pull of traces on her body as she pulled a load through the sky. Longed for the sound of sleigh-bells and a deep ‘ho-ho-ho’ from behind her.

      Rudi wasn’t a predator. She was a were-reindeer, and the magic of Christmas ran through her veins.

      Darrick sighed. You’re a pain in the ass, you know that, gorgeous?

      She gave him a one-fingered salute and turned away. You love it, and you know it. Bag and tag him, would ya? Let’s get him back to processing.

      She didn’t wait for Darrick’s reply, instead striding out of the alley. As soon as she emerged from the darkness, the lights and seasonal music of the shops around hit her. Less than a month until Christmas and the retail outlets were in full marketing swing. She stopped, closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

      Christmas.

      It was on the air already. The expectation, the anticipation, driven by a world full of children waiting to hear those same sleigh-bells in the air. For a moment, she was back there, waiting for the go from her Santa on the sleigh behind her. Anticipating the sharpness of the Christmas night air as she threw her weight against her harness and led her team out. Led them all out.

      Because Rudi wasn’t just any reindeer. She was from the original family and a deer of her bloodline always led the first sleigh out.

      But not her. Not anymore.

      She opened her eyes and the sparkling lights and music around her were dimmed by the sadness welling up from her soul. She’d had it all. The ‘princess’ of her people, she’d been honored by all reindeer kind and her

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