Blood Deep

They said fairy godmothers would grant all our wishes.
They said Tinker Bell would die if we didn’t believe.
They said magic was just pretend.

They lied.

Avery Hill, a reluctant "News of the Mysterious" reporter whose mother went missing one Christmas, finds herself in Las Vegas for the holiday, caught in a battle between light and dark fey armies. Only Hugo De Grava, a 700-year-old soul-wounded warrior cursed with eternal life, can save her—before his own time runs out.

But the dangerous magic that made Avery fear for her sanity and made Hugo a vampire isn’t done with them yet, and long-lost worlds are on a collision course on the deepest night of the year…
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Originally appeared in the 2014 holiday anthology KISS OF CHRISTMAS MAGIC.