title: A Special Christmas Anthology
author: Thompson, LaVerne
description: A Christmas Spirit by LaVerne Thompson
  A few weeks before Christmas and an unprecedented snowstorm had Kali going off the road and right into a coma. But when she came out of it sexy Dr. Devin Tanner was there to nurse her back to health. But was she a convenience or could there be something more?
  Devin wanted to meet Kali for months and with the season of miracles upon them he was taking her presence in his house as the gift it was. But could he convince her to stay beyond the season?
  Christmas Present from the Past by Eve Tesoro
  Logan's lover left him an emotional cripple after walking out on him not once but twice. His sister Ava determined to bring her brother happiness used her powers of witchcraft to find the perfect man for him. When Gareth appeared, Logan got more than he bargained for.
  Snowline’s Visitor – Arise of the Guardians Series, Book 1 by Scarlet Hunter
  Olivia thought her life was over when her father promised her in marriage to someone twenty years her senior. Who would have thought her savior would come in the form of a dark guardian of the night. Remus a vampire, her love?
  Wolf of the Frozen Sea by E. W. Walsh
  Tala, a member of the Cree nation had a duty to her tribe, but all she wanted to do was run free in the woods with her animal friends. And one day she got her wish. She only had to give up her human form to do it. She never regretted that decision until she met Caleb, and suddenly freedom wasn't all that mattered.
  
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  A Christmas Spirit by LaVerne Thompson
   Christmas got up from the bunk she’d been assigned in the middle of the room holding twenty beds, with worn wooden nightstands next to each headboard. Surprisingly, only six beds were occupied. But by evening the place would fill up. She could have had a bunk by the window but she didn’t need it, not planning on staying very long. Only long enough to fill the drab room suffocated in hopelessness and depression with a little Christmas cheer, her specialty. Moving over to the window, the snow fell like puffs of cotton on the already down covered ground. The reflection of her blue eyes stared back at her, the look of ageless wisdom Kali had glimpsed earlier glistened from her eyes, and she smiled. Looking up at the thick clouds she blew a gentle breath against the window. But it didn’t stop to frost the pane, instead of clouding the glass, it drifted through and floated up toward the heavy clouds. Her third cousin Jack, she shook her head, up to his tricks again playing with the weather. Every few hundred years or so he got bored and did something outrageous. Like create a blizzard in a place where snow is rare. But this time it actually helped her.
   Christmas just had to make sure no one in her bailiwick came to any serious harm. She sent up a quick prayer to make sure anyone caught in the snowstorm of epic proportions would survive to see the New Year. More than that lay beyond her powers. It was going to be a good Christmas this year after all. “Thank you Kali,” she whispered sending the human the power of a Christmas wish.
   That done she turned to face the room and smiled.
  
  Christmas Present from the Past by Eve Tesoro
   The previous evening, Gareth lay still, nevertheless disoriented from the change and perplexed with the language of this time. Afraid to close his eyes, his body eventually succumbed to its natural cycle. It could have been the warmth of the house, the comfort of the deeply padded bed, the incredibly soft clothing Logan left for him, or the amount of duress suppressing his essence from the night’s adventure, but Gareth slept the deepest he could ever remember. Waking slowly, he rose from bed, walking barefoot across the smooth wooden floor to the window he looked up at the sky through the hard clear pane. The farmer in him could see the sun and figured it to be about half past the nine o’clock hour.
   Wandering over to the room where Logan spoke of a bath, Gar