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  Falling for Kindred Claus

  A Kindred Tales Christmas Novel

  Evangeline Anderson

  www.evangelineanderson.com

  Falling for Kindred Claus, 1st Edition,

  A Kindred Tales Christmas Novel

  Copyright © 2019 by Evangeline Anderson

  All rights reserved.

  Cover Art Design © 2019 by Croco Designs

  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places and incidents are products of the writers’ imagination or have been used factiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead, actual events, locale or organizations is entirely coincidental.

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  Contents

  Falling for Kindred Claus

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Epilogue

  The End?

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  Falling for Kindred Claus

  A case of mistaken identity:

  A warrior who knows nothing about Christmas forced to play Santa...with disastrous results.

  A girl running from her past, who lands in a dead-end job as Santa's Helper Elf.

  Can Lisa keep herself from...Falling for Kindred Claus?

  It's a week before Christmas and Lisa Murkowski is stuck in a dead-end job, playing Santa's little Elf at the local mall. After fleeing her home to get away from an abusive drunk of a husband, she's trying to keep a low profile, so it's not exactly like she has her pick of career paths. Still, she can't help feeling like she's hit rock bottom...that is until the mysterious Kindred playing Santa at her mall shows up.

  Asher is part of the Kindred Elite Espionage Corps. Sometimes he serves as an assassin, other times a diplomat, but he's never been Santa before. And he's not supposed to be now. When he mistakes Lisa for his contact and she mistakes him for the Kindred who is scheduled to be Old Saint Nick, two hours of confusion and peeing, puking kids are the result. After all, who ever heard of a seven-foot-tall Santa with fangs? The kids are scared, Asher is frustrated, and Lisa loses her job.

  To make up for the confusion, Asher offers to take Lisa on his next diplomatic mission—a boring and safe affair where all they have to do is attend the coronation of an alien Potentate. But things go horribly wrong when there is an assassination attempt and Lisa and Asher are caught in the middle of it.

  Will the two of them escape with their lives? Will Asher listen to his heart, which tells him Lisa is his fated mate? And will Lisa be able keep herself from...Falling for Kindred Claus?

  This one is for my awesome friend and assistant Laura, who gave me the idea for this Christmas novel while we were sweating in the park in 95 degree heat watching our kids go crazy. Laura, thanks for all you do—we are a team and I couldn't manage without you!

  Hugs,

  Evangeline

  One

  Asher’s long-range ship made another orbit around the small blue-green planet the Kindred called “Earth” as he waited for his latest mission to come over the viewscreen. He’d been traveling a long time to get here—a weary journey that involved multiple wormholes and folding space, all just to reach this contact.

  He just hoped he wouldn’t have to kill anyone this time.

  Not that he minded the violence but the clean-up was messy and time-consuming. So he preferred not to kill—though he certainly could, in a variety of interesting and efficient ways.

  As a member of the Kindred Elite Espionage Corps, he wore many hats. He was a diplomat, a spy, and when he need be, an assassin. It was a job he was well suited for in temperament—no matter how stressful the situation, he always kept a cool head. In fact, some of his fellow agents had joked that he had ice water in his veins instead of blood—nothing fazed him.

  And he was patient too, but waiting for his contact to call was trying that patience at present.

  He sighed and stared at the viewscreen where the Earth rolled by like a blue-green ball. A rather insignificant planet, he mused, and yet his kinsmen seemed to think it important enough to protect. As the Mother Ship orbiting the planet’s one moon could attest.

  For the life of him, he couldn’t see the attraction—though he had taken the time to learn one of the planet’s main languages—English, for this mission. It was a primitive tongue, unlike his own elegant, flowing native tongue of Talangese—which was rapidly becoming a dead language as his people died out.

  The Tangala Kindred had much in common with the Blood Kindred, of which they were an offshoot. A group of Blood Kindred had settled on Tangala Prime about four generations ago and mated with the native people. Unfortunately, as always happened with Kindred—who had a genetic anomaly which caused their population to be 95% male—they soon didn’t have enough women to continue to thrive.

  In the normal course of events, a male-heavy population could import more females from another race and continue their species. But though the Tangala DNA was compatible with the Kindred’s own genetic material, it was stubbornly unable to mix with any other race—at least any they had found, and they had searched far and wide.

  And so the Tangala Kindred were unable to bond with any woman without a trace of the Tangala genes in her bloodline. Which meant that, as fewer and fewer females were available, the race was dying out.

  Asher had left the planet as a young warrior and never looked back. He had chosen to work in the dangerous Elite Espionage Corps because he knew he would never mate—never find a female who