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Do you believe in Santa?

Yeah, Kris doesn’t either.
But since his ship got stranded above earth,
and an antigravity accident left him with flying reindeer,
he’s decided to make the legend come to life.
The presents he brings aren’t the traditional dolls and rocking horses.
Instead he finds kids who need help—
serious help—
and gives it to them.
Cancer cured.
Houses fixed.
Parents healed.
There’s one little girl he helped years ago
who he’s kept tabs on.
And she’s grown into a beautiful woman.
He’s forced himself to keep his distance,
but when an equipment malfunction gets him stuck in a chimney,
Blitzen brings her to his rescue.
Will she be able to accept him?
Or will the truth of his identity drive her away?

In Love With Alien Santa Claus is standalone, science fiction holiday romance story that features a loving human female and a generous alien. This page-turning science fiction romance story has no cliffhanger, no cheating, and a guaranteed happy ending!

Reasons to read this book:

1. It's the next KADIN
2. Alien-Santa-shapeshifter book
3. Fits the tasks:
- short book
- Christmas lights on cover
- Christmas decorations
- something sweet (probably)
- star on cover
4. telepathic reindeer

it's got carrots in the text....
and snow falling on the cover
and green text on the cover (#33)

Who's on board so far:
Jenny, Sonia, Cat (and half her demons), Judith, Donna

I'd love to participate for this!

loving the blurb!
specifically "equipment malfunction gets him stuck in a chimney" *snorts*
why's his equipment acting up in a 'chimney'?

yes, I'm in the gutter already!

Jenny, you already corrupted half of the GR members with Kadin. Do you really want to corrupt the other half?

Cat wrote: "loving the blurb!
specifically "equipment malfunction gets him stuck in a chimney" *snorts*
why's his equipment acting up in a 'chimney'?

yes, I'm in the gutter already!"

OMG this is gonna be an interesting discussion. I can see it already!!

Yes, yes I do.

How about "generous alien"?

I'm quite curious about the size of his generosity...

Sonia wrote: "How about "generous alien"?

I'm quite curious about the size of his generosity..."

it gets him stuck in chimneys! just saying...

Donna wrote: "Jenny, you already corrupted half of the GR members with Kadin. Do you really want to corrupt the other half?"

Hey now... I have been waiting for something like this for FIVE WEEKS!!!!!

I was starting to despair...

Sonia wrote: "Donna wrote: "Jenny, you already corrupted half of the GR members with Kadin. Do you really want to corrupt the other half?"

Hey now... I have been waiting for something like this for FIVE WEEKS!!..."

Yeah, I have no doubt of that!

Cat wrote: "Sonia wrote: "How about "generous alien"?

I'm quite curious about the size of his generosity..."

it gets him stuck in chimneys! just saying..."

Annnnnd... I almost chocked on my halls mint.

I love it! What a way to Save Christmas and get everyone in the holiday spirit!

SandyL wrote: "I love it! What a way to Save Christmas and get everyone in the holiday spirit!"

I shall be reading it with a large glass of whiskey.

but shan't do a drinking game with it (drink each time his generous size is mentioned? I suspect I'd get alcohol poisoning!)

SandyL wrote: "I love it! What a way to Save Christmas and get everyone in the holiday spirit!"

I am sure there is a lot more to this book than the holiday spirit.....

Cat wrote: "SandyL wrote: "I love it! What a way to Save Christmas and get everyone in the holiday spirit!"

I shall be reading it with a large glass of whiskey.

but shan't do a drinking game with it (drink e..."

What a brilliant idea. Let's see...bourbon or a nice single malt scotch? Decisions decisions.

I don't drink any of those... But I guess it's time I get a bottle of my favorite grown up drink :D

I'd be up for a drinking game.... if we read it saturday after deadline checking. Because on sunday it might be a bad bad BAD idea.

what are we thinking as prompts, then?

Size?
Generous?
Something dirtier?

my pet peeve in these books is things like "her core" ...

and there'd have to be a Santa / Xmas one!

I want to join!! I just need to wait until I finish one of my KU books and return it so I can see if it will work for my word.

I'm in for joining.

Cat wrote: "my pet peeve in these books is things like "her core" ...

and there'd have to be a Santa / Xmas one!"

"wet folds"

*shudders*

Sonnnnnnia!!!!!

I was nearly a little bit sick then!

Sonia's shopping list:



Yep. I'm all set

Sonia wrote: "Sonia's shopping list:



Yep. I'm all set"

Can I come and join you... :D

"The product thus obtained has a transparent, sweet-tasting topaz shade."

Blue?! a blue liqueur? intriguing, but mostly my reaction is "no! wrong! blue is wrong!"

Cat wrote: ""The product thus obtained has a transparent, sweet-tasting topaz shade."

Blue?! a blue liqueur? intriguing, but mostly my reaction is "no! wrong! blue is wrong!""

Yep - not pretting coming back up! But I think this one is the brownish-yellow topaz color. :-)

It's not blue...

It's the "brownish" topaz.

brownish-yellow topaz! of course! that makes more sense and is much more appealing to be drunk!

panic over!

And it's sweet and goooooooood

And the best part? A regular bottle it's under 10 euros!!!!

right.... my ridiculous teammates have sweet-talked me into letting them put Christmas decs up in the office today, even though it's not yet December.

I should go join them & help overstuff tiny Xmas trees with baubles...

It's just one day before December. My husband had Christmas decorations Nov 1st. He said it would just be easier to bring them down before putting Halloween decorations went back in the attic. By the first weekend in November he had the tree up and decorated.

LOl

So, I got a sample to see if any word popped out to do the drinking game

Christmas is out - we'd be drunk after the prologue

And she's majoring in folklore and her tesis is about Santa. I needed a moment to go outside. This is precious.

Our tradition is (was) to set it up on December first.

However, all things Christmas start to come out near November 1st (sometimes middle October)

I'm totally Scrooge in my office: shouldn't be up before December starts and comes down the 31st Dec!

the corner behind me:


view from my desk:

that may be annoyed for your inner scrooge. LOL.

Well here the tradition is coming down on January 6th (Kings' day)

Sonia wrote: "that may be annoyed for your inner scrooge. LOL.

Well here the tradition is coming down on January 6th (Kings' day)"

oh, at home, totally agree, but in the office I need to come in in January ready to work again, after slacking off in December

I HAZ KU!!!!!

After chatting with a very nice person on the amazon client support, they gave me a workaround.

Basically, I only needed an US address.... It can even be an hotel address.

Wow!
My uncle works at a hotel, do you want the address for that, or do you have it covered?

Don’t worry, she stole... errr... borrowed mine. (With permission). Now she has to come visit me here at some point in order to make it valid. :)

OK cool.
Sonia loose in the temptations of KU. Kinda scary.

My coworkers were looking at me funny, because I had this mischievous greedy look on my face

Steven wrote: "Don’t worry, she stole... errr... borrowed mine. (With permission). Now she has to come visit me here at some point in order to make it valid. :)"

It's a matter of having a passport. My credit card balance back to full amount. A stupid form & entering permission... Oh, and a new president on that side of the Atlantic.

Then you're on

Till then, Christmas cards and care packages have to fill the quota

Why does the character in this book have to be named Jessica... :(

To make you cringe?