Betrayed by a lover, Jamie rents an isolated cabin on Lake Huron, wanting only to be left alone. Instead, he is pulled from his solitary existence as an artist and tumbles headlong into the legend of Saint Nicolas.<br><br>As a young man, Nicolas accidentally killed a man intent on murdering three children, only to have the man's malicious spirit rise up against him. Fleeing through the centuries from the Krampus, the evil troll-like creature that dogs his steps, Nico finds refuge with the young artist who takes him into his home and bed. But Jamie has questions. Who is Nicolas, and why does the Krampus want to destroy him?<br><br>When the Krampus begins to torment and torture anyone Nico comes in contact with to punish him, Jamie's life is put in danger. And Jamie isn't sure whether he can help Nico defeat his nemesis or if he's merely a pawn in the Krampus's game.

Nicolas

Impatient with his tears, he jammed a snowcap over his hair and tried not to listen to Patrick’s voice in his head. His boyfriend had been blunt, that last time…


“Fuck, Jamie! You sound like a girl when you sigh like that. Stop it,” Patrick snarled, raising his head to glare at him.


“Sorry.” Shit. He’d forgotten to be quiet, lost in the pleasure of Patrick’s mouth on him.


Patrick slapped his thigh painfully. “Roll over.”


Jamie twisted onto his stomach, burying his head in the pillows in humiliation as Patrick fucked him hard, perhaps pretending Jamie was someone else, a man he wanted…


Chapter 10