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Welcome to Rainbow Snippets and Snippet Sunday! Today, Nico tells a lie…

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His lip curled with disdain. “You speak like a child, not knowing the danger of the wolf outside the door. I have no need of your protection. Nor your love.”

Jamie’s face whitened and he pushed to his feet, looking down at Nico with hurt eyes, though his chin lifted with pride. “You’re a poor liar, Nico..”

 

NICOLAS 

 Dreamspinner Press

Betrayed by a lover, Jamie rents an isolated cabin on Lake Huron, wanting only to be left alone. Instead, he is pulled from his solitary existence as an artist and tumbles headlong into the legend of Saint Nicolas.

As a young man, Nicolas accidentally killed a man intent on murdering three children, only to have the man’s malicious spirit rise up against him. Fleeing through the centuries from the Krampus, the evil troll-like creature that dogs his steps, Nico finds refuge with the young artist who takes him into his home and bed. But Jamie has questions. Who is Nicolas, and why does the Krampus want to destroy him?

When the Krampus begins to torment and torture anyone Nico comes in contact with to punish him, Jamie’s life is put in danger. And Jamie isn’t sure whether he can help Nico defeat his nemesis or if he’s merely a pawn in the Krampus’s game.