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On a Clear Winter Night: An Irin Chronicles Novelette
On a Clear Winter Night: An Irin Chronicles Novelette
On a Clear Winter Night: An Irin Chronicles Novelette
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On a Clear Winter Night: An Irin Chronicles Novelette

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A very special holiday story for readers of the Irin Chronicles.

Join Ava, Malachi, and their friends for Midwinter holidays in Prague. The Irin might not celebrate Christmas, but that doesn’t mean Ava has to give up on the holidays. With her children on the way, nothing will stop the newest Irina from celebrating with her growing family. But will lingering doubts and worries about fatherhood let Malachi celebrate the way he wants?

On a Clear Winter Night is a novelette set after the first three books of the Irin Chronicles.

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Release dateDec 18, 2015
ISBN9781941674062
On a Clear Winter Night: An Irin Chronicles Novelette
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Elizabeth Hunter

ELIZABETH HUNTER is a ten time USA Today bestselling author of romance, contemporary fantasy, and paranormal mystery. Based in Central California and Addis Ababa, she travels extensively to write fantasy fiction exploring world mythologies, history, and the universal bonds of love, friendship, and family. She has published over fifty works of fiction and sold over two million books world-wide. She is the author of the Elemental Mysteries, the Glimmer Lake series, the Irin Chronicles, and other works of fiction.

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    On a Clear Winter Night - Elizabeth Hunter

    On a Clear Winter Night

    A very special holiday novelette for readers of the Irin Chronicles


    On a Clear Winter Night

    Join Ava, Malachi, and their friends for Midwinter holidays in Prague. The Irin might not celebrate Christmas, but that doesn’t mean Ava has to give up on the holidays. With her children on the way, nothing will stop the newest Irina from celebrating with her growing family. But will lingering doubts and worries about fatherhood let Malachi celebrate the way he wants?

    On a Clear Winter Night is a novelette set after the first three books of the Irin Chronicles.

    On a Clear Winter Night

    ELIZABETH HUNTER

    Recurve Press, LLC

    On a Clear Winter Night

    Copyright © 2015

    Elizabeth Hunter

    ISBN: 978-1-941674-06-2


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    This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

    Cover artist: Elizabeth Hunter

    Editor: Lora Gasway

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    Contents

    Chapter 1

    Chapter 2

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 4

    Chapter 5

    Epilogue

    Preview: The Staff and the Blade

    About the Author

    Also by Elizabeth Hunter

    For all the readers

    who had to know

    what happened after.


    Happy holidays,

    Elizabeth

    Chapter

    One

    AVA LEANED INTO THE SOFA, shifting the unwieldy bulk of her eight-months-pregnant body farther into the embroidered cushions that decorated the couch. Malachi’s eyes were trained on the television in a corner of the room, the black and white image glowing in the dim sitting room. The fire crackled in the hearth and early snow fell outside the window. A peaceful scene. Idyllic on a cold winter night.

    But the jostling in her belly was just a bit much.

    Calm down in there, she muttered.

    Malachi’s hand drifted over to her, running a comforting hand down her arm and then lower over the swell of her stomach. He lifted the edge of her wool sweater and laid his skin against hers.

    Instant relief.

    The pulse of his power flowed over her like a warm wave. Spreading from her abdomen and up her torso, she felt her body calm, then the ache eased. The tension in her belly relaxed and the jostling slowed down.

    She heard the last of the old dialogue on the classic Christmas film fade out and Malachi heaved a sigh.

    Really? he said.

    What? She blinked at him innocently. Didn’t they teach you that at the scribe academy? Everyone knows that every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Common knowledge, Mal.

    He tried not to smile, but she saw the peek of his dimple through the beard he’d been growing since they arrived in the old farmhouse outside of Prague.

    You’re ridiculous. He swung his legs up and stretched out, resting his head in her ever-shrinking lap. Then he turned his head to the side, lifted her shirt, and pressed a kiss to her belly.

    Beautiful man. Ava’s heart felt like it could burst when he did things like that. And he did. Often.

    All Irin men were tactile by nature, feeding off the energy Irin women contained. They couldn’t touch the humans they protected without hurting them. Touch was reserved for family, friends, and lovers, and before he’d met Ava, Malachi hadn’t felt an Irina touch in hundreds of years. Since then, he’d been making up for it.

    And once she’d gotten pregnant…

    Well, if she hadn’t derived so much mental ease from physical contact, she’d have been tempted to call him clingy. He was constantly with her. Leaving him to visit the small market in the village or run into the city with some of her Irina sisters was almost

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