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    Midnight Moonlight: A Short Story
    Midnight Moonlight: A Short Story
    Midnight Moonlight: A Short Story
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    Midnight Moonlight: A Short Story

    By Linda Winstead Jones

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    Claire is enjoying being a werewolf. More, she's enjoying her new life with Simon. Being hunted by someone determined to kill her? Not so enjoyable... 

     

    Includes the Mystic Springs short story, Mystic Matchmaker! 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSorin Rising
    Release dateJan 25, 2016
    ISBN9781519927606
    Midnight Moonlight: A Short Story
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    Linda Winstead Jones

    New York Times bestselling author Linda Winstead Jones has written more than seventy romance books in several subgenres—historical, fairy tale, paranormal, contemporary and romantic suspense. She is also a six-time RITA® Award finalist and winner of the 2004 RITA® Award for paranormal romance. Linda lives in north Alabama with her husband of forty-two years. She can be reached via www.Harlequin.com or her own website, www.lindawinsteadjones.com.

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      Midnight Moonlight - Linda Winstead Jones

      Midnight Moonlight

      MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT

      A SHORT STORY

      LINDA WINSTEAD JONES

      Midnight Moonlight Copyright © 2016 by Linda Winstead Jones

      Mystic Matchmaker Copyright © 2022 by Linda Winstead Jones

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

      Cover Design by Elizabeth Wallace

      Vellum flower icon Created with Vellum

      CONTENTS

      Midnight Moonlight

      Mystic Matchmaker

      About Linda

      Also by Linda Winstead Jones

      MIDNIGHT MOONLIGHT

      Claire threw a pair of jeans, two t-shirts, and a handful of underwear into her backpack. She’d already dropped in the most basic of toiletries, so there wasn’t room for much. Simon urged her to hurry. She’d never seen him like this, tense and irritated and more than a little anxious. His eyes had started to glow red, just a little. Normally they only did that during sex, so she was a bit taken aback.

      So far being a werewolf — for a little more than six months, now — came with more advantages than disadvantages. She finally had the great metabolism she’d always wanted. The jeans she’d just packed were her skinny jeans! Sex with Simon was great, but then it had been pretty spectacular before he’d bitten her. The vampire that had once lived in this apartment building had moved out shortly after Claire had turned, not caring for the two-to-one disadvantage.

      Two months ago she’d finally given in to Simon’s suggestion that she quit her job. They’d been living together since then. It hadn’t taken her any time at all to adjust to a musician/werewolf’s schedule. Up all night, sleeping until after noon, making love and eating whatever she wanted and basking in the moonlight as they desired. She had the perfect life.

      So three nights out of every month she turned into a monster with fangs and claws and hair all over her body. At least she remained a blonde, even then. It was a small price to pay, and it wasn’t like she was the kind of monster who hurt people. At least, not yet. Would she? Simon said werewolves were like people, in that some were bad and some were good. Some were smart and others… not so much.

      Some survived and lived a long, long time. Others did not.

      She zipped her backpack shut and turned to face Simon. Even after all this time, when she looked at him her heart did funny things. She loved him, so much. Longish dark hair, chiseled features, nice butt, and great eyes. Whether they were tinged with red or not, his dark eyes were intense. He had always seen right through her.

      But her attraction to him was much more than physical. They were connected at a soul deep level. She was drawn to him, and as much as she liked his looks and his body and his sexy voice and the orgasms, this was more. So much more.

      I’m ready, she said. As ready as I can be with a ten minute warning, anyway. Now will you tell me what’s going on? He’d received a phone call not long after they’d gotten out of bed, far too late into the afternoon for any self-respecting woman, and now this.

      He took her hand and she hurried to keep pace with him as he headed out of their bedroom and for the front door. His legs were so much longer than hers she had to run to keep up. He snagged a plain, black duffel bag along the way.

      Time to go, he said sharply.

      I know that, but to where? And for how long?

      He glanced back to her, then, and she saw something else new in his eyes. Sadness. "I haven’t decided where, and it’s likely we’re

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