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    No Such Thing As Dasher: A Holiday Short Story
    No Such Thing As Dasher: A Holiday Short Story
    No Such Thing As Dasher: A Holiday Short Story
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    No Such Thing As Dasher: A Holiday Short Story

    By Juli D. Revezzo

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    For Avery, her holiday duties as a forest ranger oftentimes involve tracking revelers who have lost their way in her wilderness domain. After a camper clashes with a reindeer, however, Avery is shocked to discover the creature is defended not by Santa, but by the formidable, yet gentle, shapeshifting Lord of the Forest. 

    Can the magic of the forest bring together a ranger and a supernatural being, or is Avery destined to celebrate yet another Christmas alone? 

    An enchanting fairy tale to celebrate the magic of the season!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJuli D. Revezzo
    Release dateDec 7, 2017
    ISBN9781386227250
    No Such Thing As Dasher: A Holiday Short Story
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    Juli D. Revezzo

    About the Author Juli D. Revezzo is a Florida girl with a love of speculative and romantic fiction and legend, and loves writing stories with all kinds of fantastical elements. She is the author of The Antique Magic series and the Paranormal Romance Celtic Stewards Chronicles series, New Adult romance Changeling's Crown, and short stories published in ETERNAL HAUNTED SUMMER, LUNA STATION QUARTERLY, among others. She is also a member of the Independent Author Network and the Magic Appreciation Tour. To learn more about this and future releases, visit her at: https://www.julidrevezzo.com/ Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/julidrevezzo or Twitter: http://twitter.com/julidrevezzo Please subscribe to my newsletter here (https://jdrevezzo.crazedfanboy.com/connectwme.html ) for news, more information on forthcoming stories and goodies!

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      No Such Thing As Dasher - Juli D. Revezzo

      NO SUCH THING as DASHER

      by

      Juli D. Revezzo

      ––––––––

      No Such Thing as Dasher, Raven Queen Publications, November 2017

      Copyright © 2016, 2017 by Juli D. Revezzo, Raven Queen Publications

      Cover design by Raven Queen Publications.

      Artwork copyrights: RondellMelling, Pixabay. Reindeer clipart from Clipart Panda.

      All logos copyright © 2012 by Boulevard Photografica/Patty G. Henderson

      ALL RIGHTS RESERVED: Except for short quotations in reviews, this literary work may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic or photographic reproduction or other means now known or hereafter invented or in any information storage or retrieval system, is forbidden without express written permission of the author. The scanning, uploading, and distribution of this book via the Internet or any other means without the permission of the author and publisher is illegal and punishable by law.

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

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      Table of Contents

      Cover Page

      Copyright

      No Such thing as Dasher

      Author’s Note/Thanks for reading

      Also by Juli

      About the Author

      NO SUCH THING AS DASHER

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      The hoof print on the victim’s forehead told Avery someone had a sick idea of a Christmas revelry.

      It’s a deer’s hoof. She recognized it as one of many she spotted in her own yard, growing up.

      So, he’d met his death by blunt trauma to the head.

      What killed him? Why did he sport a hoof print on his forehead? In the last nine months she’d worked for the Virginia Forestry Department, she’d seen a lot of accidents out here. Nothing involving deer hooves.

      Maybe we ought to petition the state to lower the speed limit, an officer said.

      What good would it do? she asked.

      What do you mean?

      Seems to me, he scrabbled with Rudolph, she voiced the quip and her fellows chuckled.

      Did anyone see a red-nosed fleeing driver? one asked.

      Or Dasher. Why’d the author pick reindeer? Doesn’t matter, at the moment. She filed the idea away for another time. Avery shook her head. Never did make sense to me, enslaving a wild animal. Why not have Santa use dogs or horses?

      Her partner shrugged.

      Do you think he thanks them for their help?

      It was a better thought than concentrating on this poor hiker’s death. Mr. Alvin Schmidt, fifty-seven years old, according to his driver’s license.

      He’s lucky he wasn’t here this Fall.

      What about the Fall? the coroner asked.

      Avery crossed her arms and peered at the official, noting the hair at the crown of his head was much thinner than her too-thick dishwater ponytail. Fall is reindeer mating season.

      You’re kidding. I thought that was...well, now.

      Nope.

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