Title: Santa Claws
Author: Kris Pearson
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Book Blurb:
From dark start to delicious ending, this unusual Christmas tale is romantic and uplifting. Nothing will ever be the same again after Jeff is accused of threatening to murder his wife. Or Evie is bruised one time too many by her abusive boyfriend. Or Santa Claws the cat starts howling under the house.
This delightfully different novella brings eventual happiness for everyone – including added joy for Christian and Fiona who you first met in Kris’s novel THE WRONG SISTER. Come and spend a sunny summer Christmas in Wellington, New Zealand. You could even adopt a kitten….
Excerpt:
“We saw you, Jeff Hartley! Saw you at Kentucky Fried. Saw her get in the car. Saw you laughing and smiling at her.” Monica’s face had turned beet-red, and the tendons in her neck stretched tight as she thrust her head toward him. It was more than she’d said to him in weeks. Months. How had things got so bad?
“Yeah, Jeff,” her sister Ingrid snapped. “We saw you leaning all over her. Opening the car door for her. How long since you did that for Monny?”
Jeff grabbed a deep breath. Jeez but he could do without Ingrid in the middle of this. “Evie was carrying dinner. For the no-hopers she lives with. Was I supposed to stand by and let her struggle with that and the door as well?”
“Why were you giving a lift?” Monica’s machine-gun mouth rattled out the question.
“Because it was bloody raining. It’s only a block out of my way from work.”
She aimed a slap at him and missed because he reared back. “You’ve done it plenty of times before, because people have seen you,” she accused.
“A couple of times. Three at most.” How had his wife known that? And maybe it was a few more than three…
“Well, I’ve had enough,” she snapped. “You’re out of here. See how you like trying to find somewhere else to live with no money.”
Jeff registered Monica’s triumphant sneer, and then Ingrid’s. “Monica, what the hell have you done?”
“Transferred the money somewhere you’ll never find it. All of it. I deserve it for what I’ve had to put up with from you. Unfaithful bastard.”
Jeff’s bile rose into his throat and he took a step forward, towering over her. “What you’ve had to put up with? A roof over your head, still being paid for by me? All the food and bills paid by me ever since you left that job last year? And in return, I get what? One meal a day, grudgingly cooked, and I can’t remember the last time we had sex. Serve you right if I was unfaithful.”
He drew another breath to continue, but Ingrid beat him to it. “She’s been a good wife to you. Looked after your home without complaint.”
He turned on his sister-in-law and glared. “Keep out of this, Ing. It’s no business of yours.”
“It’s totally my business. She’s my baby sis. I have to watch out for her.”
Jeff cut his gaze back to Monica. “What have you done with the money, Mon?”
“Hidden it where you’ll never find it,” she hissed. Pure vitriol gleamed in her eyes.
“You’re dreaming. The bank will have records of exactly what you did. I could kill you for this!”
“He said ‘kill’. He said ‘kill’,” Ingrid shrieked. “You’re not safe, Monica. I’m calling the cops.”
“Get the hell away from us, Ing. Get out of my house. Take your nosy meddling body off my property right now or I’ll throw you over the gate.”
“I’ve got you recorded,” she yelled, brandishing her phone at him.
She did indeed retreat, but only to the front boundary. After a few more minutes of heated ‘discussion’ between him and Monica, two uniformed police arrived, asked him to pack a bag, and said they were taking him into custody for the night ‘to give everyone a chance to calm down.’
No way would Jeff let his father or brother know he’d been arrested tonight. No-one in the Hartley family had ever been to jail.
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Buy Links:
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N6N1BSH
iBooks https://itunes.apple.com/nz/book/santa-claws/id1192119429?mt=11
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Author’s Favorite Holiday Food/Tradition:
Pavlova cake and raspberries! We have Christmas in the middle of summer in New Zealand.
Author Biography:
Kris writes sizzling contemporary romance, pure and simple. Well, maybe not that pure! They’re sexy stories about couples who fall in love, and into bed along the way, just like real people do.
If you like your books sweeter, you can enjoy some of the same stories under her Kerri Peach author name (which are currently being translated in China!)
If it’s fine, she gardens. If it’s wet, she writes. And if the writing’s going well, the garden can look after itself. She’s an advertising copywriter and a decor specialist, and the author of ‘The Boat Builder’s Bed’, of which more than two million were downloaded free. Giving away this taste of her work kick-started sales of all her other novels.
Her Heartlands series follows the girls who live deep in the New Zealand countryside. Her seven Wellington books are set in the capital city so she can make use of the beautiful harbor in the plots. There’s also a Spanish version of her website http://www.krispearson.com – click the flags at the top right of it to change languages. Her all-time best-sellers are ‘Taken by the Sheikh’ and ‘Desired by the Sheikh’.
She’s now working on the second of her Scarlet Bay Series. ‘Hard to Regret’ is the first. ‘Hard to Resist’ will be the second.
Social Media Links:
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