This is a short story. This is only a short story. It contains spoilers relating to Night Blade and Broken Blade in The Colbana Files. You've been warned.

Alpha Damon Lee is one of the strongest shifters around. But his strength doesn't do him or the woman he loves any good when Kit is kidnapped by a cold-hearted predator and stolen away, hidden in a cell on the opposite side of the continent.

Haunted by bitter words and a fight that left them both wounded, haunted by his failure to protect her when she needed him, Damon doesn't plan on celebrating Christmas-or anything else. But a call from a contact reminds him he'd ordered a gift for Kit and he has to make good on it. Not expecting to ever earn her trust back, Damon decides he'll still fulfill a Christmas promise he made to Kit before everything between them went to hell.