Secrets of a Christmas Box: Isabella Mumphrey Adventure Series
By Paty Jager
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This short story introduces you to Dr. Isabella Mumphrey, a female MacGyver/Indiana Jones character.
This short story has anthropologist Isabella Mumphrey excited about spending her first Christmas with her Venezuelan DEA agent boyfriend. The two met in the Guatemala Jungle in Secrets of a Mayan Moon. They found their missions intersecting in Secrets of an Aztec Temple. This Christmas story takes place before Isabella meets with her aunt at the Hopi Reservation and becomes entangled in Hopi myths and human slavery in Secrets of a Hopi Blue Star.
Isabella's plans of a wonderful Christmas are thwarted when her father hands her a World Intelligence Agency mission. He allows Tino to help her with the mission, so they can be together. As the days hasten to Christmas can she decipher the wooden cube she's been handed or will her first Christmas with Tino be a bust?
Paty Jager
Paty Jager is an award-winning author of 51 novels, 8 novellas, and numerous anthologies of murder mystery and western romance. All her work has Western or Native American elements in them along with hints of humor and engaging characters. Paty and her husband raise alfalfa hay in rural eastern Oregon. Riding horses and battling rattlesnakes, she not only writes the western lifestyle, she lives it.
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Secrets of a Christmas Box - Paty Jager
Secrets of a Christmas Box
by
Paty Jager
This is a work of fiction, Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales, is entirely coincidental.
SECRETS OF A CHRISTMAS BOX
Copyright © 2015 Patricia Jager
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PUBLISHING HISTORY
First Published by Windtree Press 2014
Second Edition Published by Windtree Press 2015
Published in the United States of America
ISBN 9781943601424
Chapter One
Isabella Mumphrey, anthropologist and World Intelligence Agency operative, stood in her kitchen making sugar cookies and singing Christmas carols. She hadn’t been this excited about the holiday since her sixth birthday. She would be spending Christmas with her Venezuelan lover, DEA agent Tino Constantine.
Faint Native American drumming and Alabaster, her cockatoo, shouting Who’s there! Who’s there!
interrupted Isabella’s cookie making and sent her scrambling to find her cell phone.
Daddy!
She hit the respond button. Hi Daddy! Merry Christmas!
You sound happy. I’m glad you have someone in your life you can spend the holidays with. But this isn’t a personal call. I wouldn’t ask you to take on a job right now, but it’s in Phoenix and it needs a person who has knowledge of Maya artifacts.
Her happiness was squashed by his immediate business-like tone and the fact he was putting her to work on her first Christmas in twenty