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    Groundhog's MacKay: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #8
    Groundhog's MacKay: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #8
    Groundhog's MacKay: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #8
    Ebook52 pages49 minutesMaggie MacKay: Holiday Special

    Groundhog's MacKay: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #8

    By Kate Danley

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    Creatures with sharp teeth who crawl beneath the earth.  Relentless brutes who control the seasons with shadows... It can mean only one thing.

     

    Groundhogs.

     

    Here to make sure spring never arrives.

     

    Fortunately Maggie MacKay and Killian of Greenwold are on the job to protect Groundhog Day from rodent monsters burrowing where they don't belong.

     

    Maggie MacKay Holiday Specials are fluffy, fun, ~40-page paranormal stories meant to give you a little more time with all your favorite characters.  They have no greater purpose other than to give you a little joy and are total popcorn reads.  These urban fantasy adventures can be read in any order and wherever you are in the series.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKatherine Danley
    Release dateFeb 11, 2022
    ISBN9798201940843
    Groundhog's MacKay: Maggie MacKay: Holiday Special, #8
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    Kate Danley

    Kate Danley began her writing career as an indie author in 2010. Since then, she spent five weeks on the USA Today bestseller list, has been honored with various awards, including the Garcia Award for Best Fiction Book of the Year, and her Maggie MacKay series has been optioned for film and television development. She has won the 2016 Panowski Playwriting Award and her plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, and other major cities. She has over 300+ film, television, and theatre credits to her name, and specializes in sketch, improv, and Shakespeare. She wrote sketch for a weekly show in Hollywood and has performed her original stand-up at various clubs in LA. She learned on-camera puppetry from Mr. Snuffleupagus and played the head of a 20-foot dinosaur on an NBC pilot. She lost on Hollywood Squares.

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      Groundhog's MacKay - Kate Danley

      Groundhog's MacKay

      IT WAS A BITTERLY COLD January morning.  Bitterly cold meaning 55-degrees Fahrenheit on the Other Side. 

      What can I say?  I still measured temperature by my own internal Los Angeles Weather Scale.  I kept hoping someday I would become cold hardy, but hadn't made the shift yet.  I tried to console myself with the thought that any vampire who tried to use me as a juice box would starve from the thinness of my blood.

      However, my partner seemed to have no troubles.

      Good morning, Maggie, said Killian, walking through the front door of the office to M&K Tracking all chipper and happy, like it was a sunny summer day and not the dead of winter.

      M&K Tracking Other Side HQ was a small, one room affair over a greengrocer shop.  My dad started renting it over twenty years ago and when he retired and Killian stepped up to the plate to put his own name on the nameplate. 

      While it still hung on to some of its 1940s noir charm with its slow moving ceiling fans and Stickley furniture, the encroaching vines and potted plants on Killian's side were totally harshing the vibe.  Although in his green tunic and tights, there was a bit of camouflage action happening which was great for him, but sucked for me.  I would be the first thing a monster saw when he stormed the office while Killian could do his best impersonation of a philodendron.

      I wondered grumpily if that was Killian's plan all along.

      I was so cold, though, I would have welcomed a werewolf with open arms if just to snuggle into that fur before being devoured.

      Killian walked to his oak desk and flung himself into his wooden swivel chair, giving himself his traditional morning twirl.

      I clutched my steaming cup of coffee in both hands for warmth and glowered at him.

      He planted his elfin boots flat on the floor and grinned at me.  I shall never tire of greeting the day that way.  Spinning chairs!  Human invention is a marvel...  He pounded his chest with both fists like he had just taken in a bracing gulp of mountain air.  So!  I do believe it is almost February, Maggie.  Do we have any cases to close out before the end of the month?

      It was a valid question. 

      I picked up the stack of cases and threw half of them at him.  Let's find out!

      Grabbing them all midflight like a hockey player grabbing a puck out of midair, Killian dropped the stack on his lap and started flipping through. 

      The year is already progressing rapidly, Killian offhandedly remarked.

      I grimaced.  Yeah...  And just when you think things are on track, February comes around with a left hook.

      Killian paused with curiosity.  What are you talking about?

      I'd take any break in a storm, even if it meant discussing ancient human history with Killian.  It was considered an unlucky month.  So unlucky, the Romans actually shorted it by a couple days so they could blast through to March.

      Killian leaned his elbows on the top of his desk, his eyes huge.  You do not say...

      I do.

      He shook his head, delighted and amused.  You humans!  Such strange ways...

      Um... those who consult the heavens and question what flocks of birds have told him should cast no stones.

      That is quite different,

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