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    The NutMacKer Sweet: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #5
    The NutMacKer Sweet: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #5
    The NutMacKer Sweet: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #5
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    The NutMacKer Sweet: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #5

    By Kate Danley

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    The holidays are the sweetest time of year, but not for Maggie and Killian who must return the Nutcracker prince to his proper place when someone tries to make sure the show does not go on.

    Come along for this Maggie MacKay Holiday Short Story Special.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Danley
    Release dateDec 21, 2019
    ISBN9781393240549
    The NutMacKer Sweet: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #5
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    Kate Danley

    Kate Danley, an award-winning actress, playwright, and author, is a member of the Acme Comedy Improv and sketch troupes in Los Angeles. Her plays have been produced in New York, Los Angeles, and the Washington, DC/Baltimore area. Danley’s screenplay Fairy Blood won first place in the Breckenridge Festival of Film screenwriting competition in the action/adventure category. Her debut novel, The Woodcutter, was honored with the Garcia Award for the best fiction book of the year, was the first place fantasy book in the Reader Views Literary Awards, and the winner of the sci-fi/fantasy category of the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Kate currently lives in Burbank, California, and works by day as office manager for education and exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles.

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      The NutMacKer Sweet - Kate Danley

      The Maggie MacKay: Magical Tracker Series

      Book One: Maggie for Hire

      Book Two:  Maggie Get Your Gun

      Book Three:  Maggie on the Bounty

      Book Four:  M&K Tracking

      Book Five:  The M-Team

      Book Six:  Maggie Goes to Hollywood

      Book Seven:  Maggie Reloaded

      Book Eight:  Maggie Goes Medieval

      Book Nine:  Eine Kleine Nacht Maggie

      Book Ten:  Of Mice and MacKays

      Maggie Holiday Short Story Specials

      The Ghost and Ms. MacKay

      Red, White, and Maggie

      My Maggie Valentine

      And more to come! 

      http://www.maggieforhire.com

      To Bob Baker and the joy he created

      Chapter One

      Beads of sweat prickled on my upper lip. 

      I had thought this would be a great holiday outing. 

      And by great, I just meant a shopping trip at this time of year that wouldn't cause me to murder myself or others. 

      But as some chick on her cell phone slammed her yoga mat into my shoulder without so much as a namaste, things were a little touch and go on that front. 

      The December heat wasn't helping.

      When the fuck is it hot in December?

      Today.  Today it was.  It was 93-degrees, just shy of breaking the all-time Los Angeles heat record for December, and here I was, like an idiot, wearing my black leathers.

      I wiped my brow with the back of my wrist. 

      I would have taken off my jacket, except I was carrying.  Nothing spoils the Christmas spirit quite like a shoulder harness full of sharp, pointy things.  It's dumb, but when you're in my line of work, you don't leave home without a couple throwing knives.

      My name is Maggie MacKay.  I'm a magical tracker.  If you've got an infestation issue of the undead and dangerous variety, I'm the exterminator you call. 

      It is a bit warm... Killian murmured.  I had understood, from all of the festive programming I have watched, that there would be snow.

      Killian is my partner.  He's a six-foot-something woodland elf who spent his college years boning up on human culture.  And from his impossibly good looks and the way the sunlight always seemed to caress his golden curls just right, I could see pretty much every person we walked past would have gladly boned up on him, too.

      Tone it down, I muttered.

      What? Killian asked, looking at me like I had interrupted him in the middle of a thought.

      You're looking awfully pretty today, Killian.

      Why, thank you, Maggie.  That is very kind—  Oh.  He paused, suddenly realizing all the attention he was getting.  I could practically see the tension around us drop as he made his internal adjustment.  Apologies.  It just happens so naturally.

      I bet it does, I replied, drily.

      Elves are part of the fae, and glamour is one of the things that they do best.  Killian wasn't just good looking, he was really good at getting you to notice how good looking he was.  While a fun party trick, not exactly what we needed when we were just trying to elbow our way through a crowd.  It was already hot enough in here and I didn't need anyone taking off their clothes.

      The outdoor mall was designed to look like a French provincial town.  The white storefronts lined a fake cobblestone street which made strolling only moderately unbearable.  The sounds of Christmas were in the air.  Sleighbells jangled from a Clydesdale's harness as he pulled a double-decker green trolley along, providing relief to the crippled influencers who thought Jimmy Choos were good idea today.  Bitches were about to start influencing the return of orthopedic nursing shoes.

      Killian's gaze, however, was drawn to the horse like a gear head spotting a 1969 Camaro.  His voice was thick with admiration.  18 hands, cold-blooded with pristine white feathers on those legs...  Just walking around Los Angeles...  He gave a low whistle and jerked his chin at the Clydesdale, who reciprocated by tossing his mane.  I guess the man knew his horses.

      Maybe if you're extra super good, we can put him on your Christmas list, I replied.

      To be clear, I was not buying the elf a horse.

      It was not on our shopping list.

      Pipistrelle had announced he needed four different types of nuts for some sort of holiday bake he was

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