title: Winter's Tales
author:  Isak Dinesen 
description: "Dinesen's stories come toward one like the flashes...from a lighthouse on a strange and infrequently sighted coast--a coast beautiful and precarious, for it may be the last outreach of magic, but resting on bedrock."--Eudora Welty<br /><br />"These tales belong to an old and great tradition and are worthy of it." --<i>The Nation</i>
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  > WICKED IN WINTER
  
  JENNIFER BERNARD
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chapter 1_
  
  >  _Chapter 2_
  
  >  _Chapter 3_
  
  >  _Chapter 4_
  
  >  _Chapter 5_
  
  >  _Chapter 6_
  
  >  _Chapter 7_
  
  >  _Chapter 8_
  
  >  _Chapter 9_
  
  >  _Chapter 10_
  
  >  _Chapter 11_
  
  >  _Chapter 12_
  
  >  _Chapter 13_
  
  >  _Chapter 14_
  
  >  _Chapter 15_
  
  >  _Chapter 16_
  
  >  _Chapter 17_
  
  >  _Chapter 18_
  
  >  _Chapter 19_
  
  >  _Chapter 20_
  
  >  _Chapter 21_
  
  >  _Chapter 22_
  
  >  _Chapter 23_
  
  >  _Chapter 24_
  
  >  _Chapter 25_
  
  >  _Chapter 26_
  
  >  _Chapter 27_
  
  >  _Chapter 28_
  
  >  _Chapter 29_
  
  >  _Chapter 30_
  
  >  _Chapter 31_
  
  >  _Chapter 32_
  
  >  _Chapter 33_
  
  >  _About the Author_
  
  >  _Also by Jennifer Bernard_
  
  > > CHAPTER ONE
  
  “You have one job,” Gretel Morrison told herself as she walked down the snowy
  path to the Noonans’ woodshed. “Don’t end up in the snowbank. That’s it. You
  can do this.”
  
  She pulled up her zipper the last inch so the fleece-lined hood of her parka
  snapped into place. It felt like wearing a biohazar