A gift for New Year. It’s not exactly a Christmas story but it does start and end with New Year festivities, so it’s an appropriate time to offer it. When I started my Living Fae series it was meant to be a quartet. Then various spin-offs happened and eventually there was a further novel, Willow’s Way. Recently, a couple of minor characters were badgering me for a book of their own and I thought maybe it would be interesting to explore a human’s reactions to the fae world. I had already written about Micky, Cobweb’s human partner, and one or two visitors to the Edge, but no human had ever actually lived on the Edge permanently until Oliver moved in with Thorn, and no, you can’t count the werewolf. So I began what I thought would be a short story and it turned into a novella of 17k words. I decided not to publish it in the conventional fashion, but to put it here for any readers who are interested. I will of course cross-post to my other social media places. I hope any of you who like my fae will like it. For anyone who hasn’t read the series, this story should sort of stand alone as I think I’ve clarified anything that desperately needed clarification. However, although you can read it by itself, the events in it are concurrent with those of the main series so obviously there are spoilers for that. If you’re not bothered by spoilers, or if you just want a short (and free) taste of my fae, go straight ahead! Enjoy!