ALSO BY J.J. GREEN
STAR MAGE SAGA
SPACE COLONY ONE SERIES
SHADOWS OF THE VOID SERIES
THERE COMES A TIME
A SCIENCE FICTION COLLECTION
LOST TO TOMORROW
DAWN FALCON
A FANTASY COLLECTION
CARRIE HATCHETT’S CHRISTMAS
Chapter One – Santa’s GrottoMS. EMILY WAINWRIGHT stood holding the hand of a little girl in a queue that snaked from the entrance of Selfridges and down Oxford Street, London. Snow had begun to fall, the first that season, and though it was only four in the afternoon, the street lights began to wink on, supplementing the rainbow hues of Christmas lights, bright in the approaching late afternoon dusk. The child shivered a little. Emily looked down and smiled and held her hand tighter.
The little girl wasn’t her daughter. Ms. Wainwright worked in a children’s home, and the
