Gift of the Magpie (Fated Mountain Lodge)

This holiday season, a reformed criminal's last chance is the detective whose partner put her away. Maggie is a thief, a victim of her kleptomaniac magpie. But now she wants to prove that she can go straight, control her magpie, and do better. So she's at Fated Mountain Lodge for the holidays, working to repay the lodge for the cost of her crimes. But when things start going missing from the lodge again, can Maggie get anyone to believe she's not to blame? Especially the silver fox PI who just got locked in the sauna with her ... Private detective and single dad Sam is at the lodge for a peaceful weekend with his teenage daughter ... and to keep an eye on the lovely thief his partner caught in the act. Sam would like to believe she's truly reformed. But how much of that is true conviction—and how much is his shift animal's profound interest in the beautiful magpie shifter? And fate itself seems determined to shove them together, from an accidental room mix-up to a sauna snafu and an unexpected snowstorm that's threatening to make this white Christmas a dangerous one. Is there really another thief at Fated Mountain Lodge ... or is Maggie up to her old ways, about to bring their newfound romance crashing down like an avalanche? It's Christmas again at Fated Mountain Lodge, with a cozy small-town romcom, fated mates, a hint of danger, and a dash of holiday spice. View Less