Coming, winter of 2010...

The Sleigh Maker

What happens when a workaholic, by-the-book union Elf and Santa's sleigh maker come together?

Only Santa knows...and he's not telling.

A Light Paranormal Romance
by Candace Sams
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
www.thewildrosepress.com
Imprint: Faery Rose

Gavin Frost is Santa’s sleigh maker.

He’s as happy as a man can be while living with regret. He wishes he could take back events that caused his fiancé to storm out of his apartment seven years ago on Christmas Eve.

Prudence Berry was Gavin's workaholic fiancé and is still an Elf with a mission! Her obsession with climbing to the top of her union (Elves’ Local #101) wasn’t as much to blame for their breakup as Gavin's philandering. But was he really playing house with those two Snow Fairies - Aurora and Borealis? Or was someone tampering with the mistletoe?

When Mrs. Claus forces the two of them to work together on Christmas Eve, they discover that the spirit of the holiday doesn’t just work on children. There’s magic afoot! Gavin and Pru are about to discover the real meaning of the season…in each other’s arms.

Brief Excerpt:

Gavin pulled in the team at the edge of town, and the deer lightly touched down on a stretch of sparkling, unmarked snow. The sleigh slid easily up to an old-fashioned log cabin where the lights were on but turned very low.

Pru turned in her seat, discarded the throw rug, and reached for a purple bag filled with gifts. “Follow me, stay quiet, and do as I say.”

He sat for a moment as she exited the sleigh.

When he didn’t immediately do as she ordered, she turned when she got to the cabin door. “Are you waiting for an invitation?”

He held up his hands in resignation, followed her to the door, and waited for instructions.

“When we go in, stay as quiet as a man of your size can. If anything happens…I’ll handle it.”

“What can happen?” he blithely asked.

“Lots of things, Gavin! If you’d read the union book you’d know what I’m talking about. Since you decided you didn’t need to study it…you’ll just have to follow my lead, won’t you?”

He pinched the bridge of his nose between his thumb and index finger. “Somebody shoot me.”

“That can be arranged,” she sweetly offered. “Now…follow me.”

New Series Coming Soon!:

WATCH KEEPERS
New Series, coming to a new publisher

World War II:
Sean Reilly was mortally wounded during World War II. He had one chance to survive and that was to become a vampire. Not knowing how many months or years the war might continue, he elected to keep fighting on the Allied side along with his best friend, Skord. But seeing the woman he loved die while fighting for freedom, and watching thousands of men lose their lives fighting Hitler, left his heart decimated. He made the decision to keep his personal life far removed from his duties as an agent of the secretive Night Watch organization.

Contemporary Los Angeles:
Morgan Grady was a good cop until a drug bust went wrong. Dying from her wounds, her uncle decided to break a primary rule of the Night Watch organization and have a vampire agent change her without her permission. When Morgan wakes up on board a private jet headed to Ireland with a stranger hovering over her, she isn’t sure she survived her wounds at all. But the revelation that she’s now a vampire, and has been made so against her will, has left her only two choices. She can either learn to accept who and what she is and work for Night Watch as its newest agent, or take a short walk into the sun and end it all.

Their Assignment:
Sean has been ordered to train Morgan to be an agent of Night Watch. He’d rather be anywhere else on the planet than stuck at one of the agency’s safe houses with a woman who didn’t want to become a vampire. Including her belligerent behavior, he has to deal with a very old enigma from the vampire world. Regar is back...

With his old World War II comrade, Sean must now confront Regar and fight whatever feelings he’s having for Morgan. There’s no room for romance in a world where even a vampire agent could die a thousand different ways.

Chasing the elusive Regar, fighting off cannibalistic rogue vampires, and keeping even the independent vampires of the world from learning of the existence of a secret organization is all in a day’s work for any agent of Night Watch.

Night Watch. It’s an organization of vampires teamed with humans to fight evil most of the world doesn’t even know exists. If they aren’t there in the night, who will protect us?