title: Awakening (Children of the Solstice) (Volume 1)
author:  Baltimore Russell 
description: Baltimore Russell is an actor, producer, and writer. He and his husband created the People You Know new media series, which aired on HereTV. Almost from the time he learned to work a pencil, he could often be found creating his own stories. He lives in New York City with his husband, John Dylan DeLaTorre. Native Texan Jennifer Pallanichis a trade journalist who has bylined over half a million words about the oil and gas industry. She has published the nonfiction book Flacks & Hacks: Trade Secrets Journalists Want PR Pros to Know and loves to read good versus evil stories. An avid scuba diver, traveler, reader, and writer, she lives with a lab mix named Houdini and a cat named Possum.
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  _The Spirit of Solstice_
  
  
  (The Malykant Mysteries, Book 6)
  
  
  
  
  
  by
  
  
  
  
  
  Charlotte E. English
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Charlotte E. English
  
  
  
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be
  re-sold.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter One
  
  
  The eve before Winter Solstice arrived; heralded, as ever, by a flurry of snow
  and a bone-aching chill. Konrad welcomed the joys of the season by going to
  bed straight after dinner — alone. He took a book, three hot bricks and a
  glass (or two) of brandy with him, a combination which seemed to him to
  encompass all a gentleman could possibly wish for on such a night.
  
  
  So deliciously comfortable was he in his four-poster bed, nightcap firmly
  warding off those errant wisps of draught which found their way around his
  heavy bed curtains, that he was not best pleased to be disturbed by a frigid
  whisper shivering through his mind like a sudden, icy wind.
  
  
  _Master._
  
  
  If he ignored it