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Christmas Wish is a
heartwarming winter romance with recipes. It's only $.99 and for the
first two weeks, all the proceeds will go to the author's local food
bank.
Blurb
Rayez,
a smoking hot chef and fire djinn in exile, lands himself in deep
trouble (at the bottom of a beer bottle) when he tries to help a
mysterious beautiful woman.
Selene
is pursued and desperate. She’ll do anything to keep her brother
safe—including capture a djinn.
While
deception brings them together, dangerous enemies make them unlikely
allies. Can one gigantic wrong lead to two rights and true love?
*Also
included are some of the recipes Rayez made in the book.*
*This
is an enhanced and expanded version of a story previously published
as Sealed With A Kiss in the Alphas Unleashed anthology.*
Excerpt
Selene
returned home from Paula’s and stood on her threshold gaping. The
apartment was put back together in better condition than before. She
now had a deep red, comfortable looking couch. Her throw, neatly
folded and placed across the top of the middle cushion, added a nice
homey touch. Ella Fitzgerald crooned “Baby, it’s Cold Outside”
in the background.
A
carved cherry wood coffee table, a thick, ornate Persian rug, and a
restocked bookshelf were some of the other new additions. Nice.
Then
her heart plummeted. Instead of their small, crooked tree, the room
now boasted a majestic 7-foot tall beautiful Douglas Fir decorated
with exquisite ornaments. “How? What?”
Rayez,
who’d been sitting on the couch reading a collection of Rumi’s
poems and enjoying a glass of red wine, blushed. He put the book down
and got to his feet.
His
short-sleeved black tee-shirt and worn blue jeans showed off his
manly assets in all the right ways. “Since Cade wasn’t around
helping, I cleaned the rest of it up using djinn powers,” he said,
stuffing his hands in his pockets and rocking back on his heels. “I
hope you don’t mind me making some changes. If you don’t like
them, I can put it back as it was.”
“Um,
if you could just turn the tree back to our tree that’d be nice. It
had a lot of homemade decorations.” She gave him a sheepish grin
and a shrug. “It’s special to Cade and me.”
He
waved a hand and the small tree with its crooked star popped back
into existence. “Done.”
“Otherwise,
it’s all very nice,” she said, glancing around for the umpteenth
time since she’d walked in the door. “Thank you.”
The
best improvement was him. He was still there. And at the moment, he
looked like a normal guy. She could pretend she was just a girl
returning home to him. The yearning for that simple life left her
with a hollow ache.
Selene
walked over to the book shelf and perused the titles. All her old
favorites were back—Little Women, Good Earth, Pride and Prejudice,
Around the World in Eighty Days, Frankenstein and more. A contented
smile slipped onto her lips. She turned to Rayez. “Thank you.”
“My
pleasure,” he replied gruffly. “Thanks for using your books to
help me out.”
She
laughed. “What a night, huh?”
“Want
a glass of wine to toast our survival?”
His
gaze lingered on her, dark, intense and so very male. A striking
contrast to his teasing tone. She should decline, walk away from
temptation. But her feet refused to move. It was just one glass of
wine. Nothing wrong with that. “Sounds like a great idea.”
He
magicked another glass of wine into existence and presented it to her
with a graceful flourish. “For you, madam.”
“Thanks.”
She took the glass and raised it. “Here’s to surviving the rest
of it.”
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Christmas Wish is now available at:
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***All
proceeds from the first two weeks of sales will be donated to the
Concho Valley Regional Food Bank. ***
Author
Bio
Mina
Khan is a Texas-based writer and food enthusiast. She grew up in
Bangladesh on stories of djinns (pronounced "gins"), ghosts
and monsters. These childhood fancies now color her fiction. She
daydreams of hunky paranormal heroes, magic, mayhem and mischief and
writes them down as tales of romance and adventure.
Her
first published work, The Djinn's Dilemma,
won the novella category of the 2012 Romance Through The Ages
(published) contest. A Tale of
Two Djinns won the 2013 Readers’ Crown for
best paranormal romance and Wildfire won the 2014 Prism for
Best First Book.
For
more information check out her:
Twitter:
@SpiceBites
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