Servants of Fate Boxed Set
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As servants of Fate, Father Time’s sons must sacrifice a mortal’s lifetime on
behalf of humanity before each year ends. It’s simpler if they don’t get
involved, as their immortality is a barrier to relationships and to
understanding the emotions of those whose lives end in a blink, especially if
these time holders have a hand in it. Servants of Fate pass in and out of the
lives of those around them, never interacting, until a different type of fate
steps in. They can stop time, but love will leave them powerless.
THIS COLLECTION CONTAINS ALL THREE TITLES FROM THE SERVANTS OF FATE
SERIES
Stealing Time
Father Time’s son, Zeit Geist, must sacrifice a mortal’s lifetime to the
Fates each New Year’s Eve. Last year—inexplicably, really—he made an 11:59
substitution. The Fates are pissed and they’re after his mortal Hannah. With the
year ending, he ought to figure out why he’d saved her—and why he keeps doing
it.
Following an unlucky year, Hannah Lyons needs a week’s holiday in a lodge to
unwind. What she gets is near-death experiences and a sexy immortal who can’t
avoid kissing her, but might have to kill her. After all, even Zeit can’t hold
back time indefinitely.
Taking Time
Tempus fugit. Time flies…unless you’re Tempus Halt, Father Time’s son. Day in
and day out are the same, except for New Year’s Eve when he steals the life of a
mortal on behalf of the Fates. This year marks his first failure to stay the
monotonous course. A mortal’s kiss and her insistence on taking the place of his
year’s sacrifice stalled out everything. Now, Tempus has to keep her alive for a
year so his sacrifice isn’t wasted, but that’s the only reason—definitely.
One of these crazy grim reapers stole Lacey Carpenter’s estranged father’s
life two years ago. She’ll give her own life rather than letting it happen
again. It backfires when Tempus doesn’t actually kill her, and they have to
spend the year together. She’s falling for an immortal who stops time, not just
to save her life, but also to ruin her dates and steal her books. This can never
work and fate is just not on her side—in fact, they’d really like her dead
before Tempus falls for her in return.
Keeping Time
When Ruin’s mortal sacrifice to the Fates on New Year’s Eve is already dying,
it should be the easiest life he has to take, but not this year. The dying man
knows Ruin is there to kill him, but he asks Father Time’s son to look after his
twin sister. Ruin can’t stay away from the sweet and sensual Phoebe. His
previous interactions with women changed the definition of his name, Ruin, so he
can’t fall for her, especially when the lovely mortal doesn’t know he killed her
brother.
Phoebe’s brother promised to send her a guardian angel, but Ruin seems too
devilish to be holy. He only wants to be friends and keep watch over her, but
she can’t resist him. Loving Ruin is a sin tempting her heart. How wrong is it
to cause an angel’s fall? Ruin and Phoebe’s time is running out as another New
Year’s Eve sacrifice approaches, and Ruin might lose everything for keeping his
true hand in fate secret.
Excerpt:
It took them another three attempts to get what they both deemed were acceptable snowman portions.
“Hey. Coal.” With raised eyebrows, Hannah held up the two lumps of coal that had come in his snowman kit. “Get a good long look because this is what you’re getting next year.”
He couldn’t stop smiling at her. A dozen times each hour today, he’d wished he could slow down time because he wanted to spend more time with Hannah—he needed that. She was singing Frosty the Snowman with a carefree abandon he’d never felt before. If only he didn’t have the end of the year looming over him.
“Okay, pass me his corn cob pipe,” she said.
He pulled the “pipe” out of the box and stared at it. “Our snowman is a smoker? And this is a kids’ song?”
“It was written back before people worried about things like their lungs,” she said, reaching for it.
He pulled it away. No. It wasn’t right. “His days are already numbered, and he’s playing with fire—actual fire?”
“Ohhhh, right.” She tilted her head. “Wow, that does make him a bit of a rebel, doesn’t it? I bet the snowladies were all suitably impressed.”
Zeit looked around. There were mortal children all around. Young impressionable mortal children. He put the pipe back in the box.
“Or he’s not really a rebel. He likes to play things safe. Then again,” she tapped his coal eyes, “he did earn his coal. Maybe he’s got nothing to prove. There should be buttons in the box.”
He pulled off his glove to search through the bottom of the box, pulling out three buttons. “What is he buttoning up?” he asked as he handed them to Hannah.
She’d started pressing the buttons into his middle snow section, but she stopped and bit her lip as she stared at the round button still in her hand. Finally, she shrugged and pushed the last one in. “I think you’re overanalyzing this.”
“Or it’s a mortal tradition that could use some scrutiny.” He held out the faux carrot that came in his kit.
“But, look, he’s healthy. A carrot.”
“Is he going to eat his own nose?”
“I can’t do this with you now.”
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After a childhood spent wandering as a military brat, Wendy Sparrow found her
home in Washington State. Her days involve convincing her two kids she knows how
to properly parent and her nights showing her husband all the cool things
romance authors know… or goofing around online… or reading, but mostly the
first thing.
She’s active in OCD and autism communities and writes on her blog to support
awareness in both. With her whole heart, Wendy believes everyone deserves a
happily-ever-after. If she's not writing or wrangling kids, she's on Twitter,
@WendySparrow, where she'll chat with anyone about anything.
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Servants of Fate Boxed Set
Ann Gimpel is a USA Today bestselling author. A lifelong aficionado of the
unusual, she began writing speculative fiction a few years ago. Since then her
short fiction has appeared in a number of webzines and anthologies. Her longer
books run the gamut from urban fantasy to paranormal romance. Once upon a time,
she nurtured clients. Now she nurtures dark, gritty fantasy stories that push
hard against reality. When she’s not writing, she’s in the backcountry getting
down and dirty with her camera. She’s published over 45 books to date, with
several more planned for 2017 and beyond. A husband, grown children,
grandchildren, and wolf hybrids round out her family.
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