SLEIGHED
To the thousands of holiday tourists who travel to the snow-covered peaks of Pine Ridge every December, the North Star Christmas Workshop is the ultimate winter wonderland—a three-hundred-thousand-square-foot palace of festive lights, handcrafted toys, soaring clock towers, and holiday magic.
To twenty-two-year-old Sparrow Crawford, it’s forty hours a week of squeezing her lush, plus-size curves into a velvet Mrs. Claus gown, trading lethal banter with the staff, and trying desperately not to drool over her co-star.
Summit Simmons is six-foot-five of athletic muscle, warm hazel eyes, wicked wit, and devastating charm.
Dressed in Santa’s crimson coat, he delivers terrible dad jokes to tourists by day—and stars in Sparrow’s filthiest midnight fantasies by night.
What Sparrow doesn’t know is that Summit has been silently, possessively head-over-heels in love with her for over a year.
He hasn't told a soul except his best friend, Roman. He’s spent months guarding her from afar, enduring the relentless, unwanted advances of Fleur—an elf performer who refuses to take no for an answer—while waiting for the right moment to claim Sparrow as his own.
That moment arrives when a catastrophic blizzard seals the mountain pass, cutting power, communications, and emergency exits, trapping the adult cast and crew inside the darkened attraction for the weekend.
Then the lights turn blood-red.
One by one, the performers are stalked and slaughtered by an unseen killer using the workshop’s industrial machinery, festive rigging, and seasonal props as instruments of torture.
In the suffocating dark, fear strips away every shred of restraint.
Desires ignite into scorching, explicit passion, secrets are ripped open, and Summit makes an unforgettable public vow: no one touches his Mrs. Claus.
To survive the night, Sparrow and Summit must match wits with a psychopathic killer hiding in plain sight—before the clock strikes midnight and their names are carved onto the dead list forever.