Wendy Rathbone

The Elves of Christmas Wendy Rathbone

Two months before Christmas at the North Pole, Santa's workshop bustles with activity. Santa is coming early with only half a day's warning to inspect the elves' progress! Pepper, who designs and makes special one-of-a-kind dolls, is ordered by his boss Jingle to take time out of toy-making to wash three stories of windows and decorate every room in preparation for Santa. He assigns Ice to assist. But for Pepper, it's a bit of a problem. Ice is a surly elf, even disrespectful toward Santa, while Pepper reveres Santa to the point of hero-worship. An unlikely pairing, they must work together in order to finish before Santa's arrival. But can two elves with conflicting value systems even get along? Amidst secrets, resentments, toasted cheese sandwiches, snowman building, a blizzard, and Santa's nerve-wracking visit, Pepper and Ice discover a mutual attraction. If they can overcome wrongful assumptions and failed expectations, love might just take its natural course and lead them to a Merry Christmas.