The twilight before christmas - christine feehan

One of seven sisters gifted with powers of witchcraft, novelist Kate Drake returns to her California hometown to open a bookstore.

When an earthquake cracks the foundation, releasing a centuries-old evil, contractor Matt Granite vows to protect her.

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From New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Christine Feehan, discover her passionate and paranormal novel of love and mystery at Christmastime.

Kate Drake, a well-traveled bestselling novelist, is one of seven sisters--seven very special sisters who happen to be witches.

When she returns to her small coastal hometown before Christmas to attend her sisters wedding, she decides to settle there.

Discovering a charming but run-down and spooky historic house, she decides to open a bookstore and sets about clearing it out when an earthquake occurs, knocking down part of the wall and revealing a burial crypt.

Intrigued but cautious, she turns to the handsome carpenter she hired to help renovate the house.

But Kate begins to sense that neither the carpenter nor the law nor any otherworldly power can help her reign in the evil that was released from the crypt.

She will have to summon all of her supernatural power--and that of her six sisters--to destroy the sinister force that is casting a dark shadow over her hometown.

The Twilight Before Christmas is a darkly charming romance, reminiscent of the holiday works of Jude Deveraux and Linda Howard.