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    Twist of the Magi
    Twist of the Magi
    Twist of the Magi
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    Twist of the Magi

    By Caren J. Werlinger

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    Christmas is not looking very merry for Penny Havers – she won’t be seeing her family for the holidays; she hasn’t had a girlfriend in forever; she can’t get her stories published. When two young women are hired at the shop where she works, Penny begins to think her luck may have changed. Penny is about to learn that, when Christmas works its magic, what you hope for isn’t always what you get.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCaren J. Werlinger
    Release dateNov 6, 2014
    ISBN9780996036825
    Twist of the Magi
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    Caren J. Werlinger

    Bestselling author Caren Werlinger published her first award-winning novel, Looking Through Windows, in 2008. Since then, she has published seventeen more novels, winning several more awards. In 2021, she was awarded the Alice B Medal for her body of work. Influenced by a diverse array of authors, including Rumer Godden, J.R.R. Tolkein, Ursula LeGuin, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Willa Cather and the Brontë sisters, Caren writes literary fiction that features the struggles and joys of characters readers can identify with. Her stories cover a wide range of genres: historical fiction, contemporary drama, and the award-winning Dragonmage Saga, a fantasy trilogy set in ancient Ireland. She has lived in Virginia for over thirty years where she practices physical therapy, teaches anatomy and lives with her wife and their canine fur-children.

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      Twist of the Magi - Caren J. Werlinger

      Books by Caren J. Werlinger

      Currently Available:

      Looking Through Windows

      Miserere

      In This Small Spot

      Neither Present Time

      Year of the Monsoon

      She Sings of Old, Unhappy, Far-off Things

      Coming Soon:

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      Twist of the Magi

      Twist of the Magi

      Published by Corgyn Publishing, LLC.

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2014 by Caren J. Werlinger.

      All rights reserved.

      e-Book ISBN: 978-0-9960368-2-5

      E-mail: cjwerlingerbooks@yahoo.com

      Web site: www.cjwerlinger.wordpress.com

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      This work is copyrighted and is licensed only for use by the original purchaser and can be copied to the original purchaser’s electronic device and its memory card for your personal use. Modifying or making copies of this work or distributing it to any unauthorized person by any means, without limit, including by email, CD, DVD, memory cards, file transfer, paper printout or any other method, constitutes a violation of International copyright law and subjects the violator to severe fines or imprisonment. Please purchase only authorized electronic editions.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      Twist of the Magi

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      THE SOUND OF A SNOWPLOW scraping its way down the street made Penny look up.

      Oh, no, no, no. Penny leapt up from her chair, and loose pages went flying all over the kitchen. I can’t be late again.

      She ran to her bedroom, yanking off her sweatshirt and hopping on one foot to get her flannel pj pants off. She pulled the least-wrinkled pants and shirt she could find from the pile of clothes taking up half her bed and dressed while she hastily brushed her teeth, dribbling toothpaste down her chest.

      Shoot. She blotted the toothpaste with a washcloth and inspected the spot in the mirror. Oh, well. I’ll be home by six, Chester, she said to the cat sitting on the vanity. He batted a paw at the stream of water running from the faucet and then licked the water off. She turned the faucet off, leaving the cat glaring at her as she hurried out of the bathroom.

      She grabbed her winter jacket from the back of the couch on her way out the door. Taped to the door was a note. She didn’t need to read it. She knew it was a reminder of the rent, which was due today. She’d been late the last two months, and her landlady wasn’t taking any chances. Outside, three or four inches of new snow covered everything. Using a gloved hand, she dusted the snow off the windshield of her baby blue 1979 Ford Pinto and climbed inside. She paused for a couple of seconds to lay her hands on the dashboard.

      Please start the first time, she begged, her eyes scrunched tight. She held her breath as she turned the key and whooped when the starter cranked and the engine roared. She patted the dashboard, put the car in gear and pulled away from the curb, the Pinto’s tires spinning in the

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