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    A Highland Ghost for Christmas: Gambling Ghosts, #1
    A Highland Ghost for Christmas: Gambling Ghosts, #1
    A Highland Ghost for Christmas: Gambling Ghosts, #1
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    A Highland Ghost for Christmas: Gambling Ghosts, #1

    By Jo-Ann Carson

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    Jilted by her fiancé, librarian Maddy Jacobson is nursing a broken heart, when her best friend gives her an early Christmas present. Intended to be a fun, psychic reading in a spooky, tea house, the gift turns out to be life changing. Maddy becomes haunted by a mischievous, Highland ghost.

    Ruggedly handsome, Cullen Macfie, the Highlander, has been dead for over three centuries, and never in all those years has he been so attracted to a woman, as he is to Maddy. He falls hopelessly in love and decides to woo her.

    Can there be a future for a librarian and a naughty, Highland ghost?

    A Highland Ghost for Christmas is a sweet, romantic comedy guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart, make you laugh out loud and leave you craving a man in a kilt … and shortbread, of course.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJo-Ann Carson
    Release dateJan 13, 2016
    ISBN9780994955630
    A Highland Ghost for Christmas: Gambling Ghosts, #1
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    Jo-Ann Carson

    Jo-Ann Carson ~ paranormal mystery and romance ~ Reports of Jo-Ann Carson’s death on a Gulf Island are greatly exaggerated or, at the very least, premature. An award-winning fiction and non-fiction author, blogger and podcaster Jo-Ann loves to tinker with words. Her latest two series the Ghost & Abby Mysteries and the Gambling Ghosts feature eccentric characters, such as a Viking ghost with existential issues, a broken-hearted Highlander and a Casanova-man-witch. At the center of each tale is a strong woman trying to make sense of life and love.  A firm believer in the magic of our everyday lives, Jo-Ann loves watching sunrises and walking the beaches near her home in the Pacific Northwest. You can find her at her author website: http://www.jo-anncarson.com/. Blog/ Twitter/ Author FB/ Pod FB/ Pinterest/ Instagram / BookBub Page

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      A Highland Ghost for Christmas - Jo-Ann Carson

      A Highland Ghost for Christmas

      Also by Jo-Ann Carson

      Gambling Ghosts

      A Highland Ghost for Christmas

      A Viking Ghost for Valentine's Day

      Confessions of a Pirate Ghost

      The Biker Ghost Meets His Match

      A Highland Ghost for Christmas

      Gambling Ghost Series

      Jo-Ann Carson

      JRT Publications

      Nanaimo, B.C.

      © 2016 Jo-Ann Carson Terpstra

      JRT Publications

      ISBN 978-0-9949556-3-0

      Cover Art by Steven Novak

      A Highland Ghost for Christmas is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places and incidents are the products of my imagination. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Dedication

      1. Santa Clause is Coming . . . for Tea

      2. All I Want for Christmas is . . . Maddy

      3. A Wicked Holly Christmas

      4. He Better Watch Out . . .

      5. The Most Confusing Time of the Year

      6. Peace in her World

      7. Angels and Highlanders

      8. Christmas in her Kitchen

      9. Not so Merrily on High

      10. Maddy's Hallelujah Chorus

      11. Jingle Bells Rock for Coffee

      12. More Rocking

      13. Frosty the Snow Fight

      14. It's Beginning to Look Messy

      15. I'll be Home for You

      16. Here Comes Santa Clause

      17. Oh Come all ye Highlanders

      Epilogue

      Aknowledgements

      A Note from Jo-Ann

      About Jo-Ann Carson

      An Old Fashioned Shortbread Recipe From Scotland

      A Viking Ghost for Valentine's Day - First Chapter

      Confessions of a Pirate Ghost - First Chapter

      The Biker Ghost Meets His Match - First Chapter

      Introduction

      Jilted by her fiancé, librarian Maddy Jacobson is nursing a broken heart, when her best friend gives her an early Christmas present. Intended to be a fun, psychic reading in a spooky, tea house, the gift turns out to be life changing. Maddy becomes haunted by a mischievous, Highland ghost.

      Ruggedly handsome, Cullen Macfie, the Highlander, has been dead for over three centuries, and never in all those years has he been so attracted to a woman, as he is to Maddy. He falls hopelessly in love and decides to woo her.

      Can there be a future for a librarian and a naughty, Highland ghost?

      A Highland Ghost for Christmas is a sweet, romantic comedy guaranteed to warm the cockles of your heart, make you laugh out loud and leave you craving a man in a kilt … and shortbread, of course.

      Dedication

      I dedicate this story to Santa’s helpers who truly make the Christmas season special.  I hope you give yourself some time during the hectic holiday to curl up beside a warm fire, with a naughty beverage and read my book. May your holiday be filled with peace, love and joy.

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      Santa Clause is Coming . . . for Tea

      December 19th

      Madison Jacobson questioned her sanity as she followed her best friend Ellie inside the notorious tea house, which had a wicked reputation for all things supernatural. A wiry woman with piercing, blue eyes and white hair pulled into a loose knot on the top of her head stood beside the reservation desk. Her thin lips turned into a faint smile as she looked at them, over a pair of tortoise-shell, reading glasses perched precariously on her narrow, ski-jump nose. For a moment Maddy felt like a new sales item in a Christmas catalogue. Around the woman’s neck hung a magnificent, agate pendant, a talisman believed to have strong metaphysical power.

      You must be my eleven, the woman said with an exotic accent.

      The smell of Earl Grey tea and freshly, baked scones mingled in the air, almost masking another odor. Maddy concentrated on the odd smell. Mold, moth balls and a whiff of cigar smoke? The hair on the nape of Maddy’s neck rose. Perhaps the ghost stories were true.

      She is, said Ellie pushing Maddy forward towards the hostess. She’s your eleven.

      Maddy wondered for the hundredth time why she had agreed to come here. It hadn’t been easy for Ellie to talk her into it. She had wined her and dined her and when that didn’t work, she reminded her of their blood oath taken at the age of eight. It’s destined, Ellie had said as she closed the deal the night before. And it’s my Christmas present to you.

      It had to be the most unusual Christmas gift in the world.

      Destiny, my foot. Maddy fidgeted as she looked closely at the older woman. A well-educated reference librarian at the local university, Maddy believed in facts, not destiny, psychics or any form of hocus-pocus. How anyone could believe a pile of tea leaves on the bottom of a porcelain cup could predict the future amazed her. They needed their heads checked. And haunted houses? They belonged in Halloween books.

      Maddy twisted her neck to relieve tension and focused on the woman with the pendant. My friend thinks I need your help.

      The woman’s eyes twinkled. Indeed you do. Follow me.

      The woman led them down a narrow hallway. Faded photographs in old, wooden frames lined the walls, covered in pink flower wallpaper. Pictures of people from years and years ago, probably long forgotten. A chill started at the base of her spine and rose slowly, pushing her creep-meter off its scale. Sheesh. How long would she have to stay in this place to honor her agreement with Ellie?  Maddy bit the inside of her mouth.

      The woman stopped at the second doorway and turned towards them. She gestured towards it. This is Lilith’s tea room. The old wooden floor boards creaked beneath their feet as they walked to the large table set for two in the middle of the room. Smaller tables surrounded their table, but they

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