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    The Night Before Christmas (Rose Red Rhymes #2)
    The Night Before Christmas (Rose Red Rhymes #2)
    The Night Before Christmas (Rose Red Rhymes #2)
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    The Night Before Christmas (Rose Red Rhymes #2)

    By Saffina Desforges

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    A CHRISTMAS SHORT THRILLER - ROSE RED RHYMES #2 ~ The Night before Christmas

    SAFFINA DESFORGES, international best-selling author of Sugar & Spice, Anca's Story and the Rose Red crime thriller series (Snow White, Rapunzel and coming soon, Beauty & the Beast), brings you ROSE RED RHYMES, a collection of crime thriller short stories featuring the Rose Red cast. But be warned. These are NOT for children!
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    ROSE RED RHYMES 2 ~ The Night Before Christmas

    With no major cases on her desk and the big day fast approaching, DCI Cass 'Red' Rose and her team are looking forward to the festive period and some well-earned time off. A last-minute Christmas shopping trip and a serious accusation from a child at the toy store say otherwise. Yet again, Red finds herself embroiled in another mystery and this time, she has helpers. The Night Before Christmas turns out to not be as quiet as she thinks...

    Rose Red Rhymes

    Rose Red Rhymes 1 ~ Ring-A-Ring O'Roses
    Rose Red Rhymes 3 ~ London's Burning is coming soon
    Rose Red Rhymes 4 ~ Queen of Hearts is coming soon
    The Rose Red crime thriller series

    Book 1, Snow White
    Book 2, Rapunzel
    Book 3, Beauty and the Beast is coming soon
    Book 4, Little Red Riding Hood is coming soon.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSaffina Desforges
    Release dateOct 24, 2013
    ISBN9781908961570
    The Night Before Christmas (Rose Red Rhymes #2)
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    Saffina Desforges

    Since 2011, Saffina Desforges has sold close to a million titles. The following books are available: Crime *Snow White *Rapunzel *Ring-a-ring O'Roses *The Night before Christmas *Rose Red crime thriller box-set Young Adult *Saffi does Sherlock (YA Sherlock Holmes series) *Indigo Kids - Books One and Two - Awakenings and Paragon. (YA Fantasy/paranormal series) Coming soon... *Beauty & the Beast (Book 3 of the Rose Red Crime thriller series) *First Blood (Book One - Equilibrium - Adult Fantasy trilogy) Contact: saffinadesforges@rocketmail.com Represented by Broo Doherty @ DHH Literary Agency, London. Coming soon ~ (writing as Stevie Jordan) TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE (forthcoming WONDERLAND crime thriller series) & DRAWER SEVEN. Contact: crimesinwonderland@gmail.com

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      The Night Before Christmas (Rose Red Rhymes #2) - Saffina Desforges

      Rose Red Rhymes

      A Rose Red crime thriller short story

      The Night Before Christmas

      by

      Saffina Desforges

      © Saffina Desforges 2012

      Published at Smashwords

      All rights reserved.

      This story is a work of fiction. The resemblance of any characters to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

      ISBN: 978-1-908961-57-0

      T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house

      Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

      The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

      In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

      The children were nestled all snug in their beds,

      While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads.

      And mamma in her ‘kerchief, and I in my cap,

      Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap.

      When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,

      I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.

      Away to the window I flew like a flash,

      Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

      The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow

      Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below.

      When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,

      But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer.

      With a little old driver, so lively and quick,

      I knew in a moment it must be St Nick.

      More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,

      And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name!

      "Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!

      On, Comet! On, Cupid! on Donner and Blitzen!

      To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!

      Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!"

      As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,

      When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky.

      So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,

      With the sleigh full of Toys, and St Nicholas too.

      And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof

      The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.

      As I drew in my head, and was turning around,

      Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

      He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,

      And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.

      A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,

      And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

      His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!

      His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!

      His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,

      And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

      The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,

      And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.

      He had a broad face and a little round belly,

      That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

      He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,

      And I laughed when I saw him, in spite

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