Deep Kiss of Winter

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    Deep Kiss of Winter
    Kresley cole & Gena Showalter
    DEEP KISS
    OF
    WINTER
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    ALSO BY KRESLEY COLE
    The Sutherland Series
    The Captain of All Pleasures
    The Price of Pleasure
    The MacCarrick Brothers Series
    If You Dare
    If You Desire
    If You Deceive
    The Immortals After Dark Series
    A Hunger Like No Other
    No Rest for the Wicked
    Wicked Deeds on a Winter’s Night
    Dark Needs at Night’s Edge
    Dark Desires After Dusk
    Kiss of a Demon King
    ALSO BY GENA SHOWALTER
    Awaken Me Darkly
    Enslave Me Sweetly
    Savor Me Slowly
    Seduce the Darkness
    D K
    EEP
    ISS
    OF
    WINTER
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    Kresley Cole
    &
    Gena Showalter
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    This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and
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    living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
    Untouchable copyright © 2009 by Kresley Cole
    Tempt Me Eternally copyright © 2009 by Gena Showalter
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    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
    Deep kiss of winter / by Kresley Cole and Gena Showalter.
    p. cm.
    ISBN 978-1-4391-5966-8
    ISBN 978-1-4391-6685-7 (ebook)
    1. Love stories, American. 2. Occult fiction, American. 3. Christmas stories.
    I. Cole, Kresley. Untouched. II. Showalter, Gena. Tempt me eternally.
    PS648.L6D44 2010
    813’.54—dc22
    2009031082

    CONTENTS
    Untouchable by Kresley Cole
    Tempt Me Eternally by Gena Showalter
    UNTOUCHABLE
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    Kresley Cole
    Dedicated to Lauren McKenna and Gena Showalter, two
    incredible ladies and unstoppable forces of nature, for a
    thousand reasons why (and not just because my fabulous
    editor put me in a book with my favorite author).
    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
    Much love to all my fellow rabid Showalter fans, for sharing a boundless admiration and warm affection for all things Gena. To those of you about to be initiated: Yes, we have T-shirts and we meet in the bar.
    And thank you to Swede, for your wintry insights and nonstop support. You didn’t have to drag me over the finish line on this one, but it