A cupid shooting another immortal with an arrow of Love was stupid and dangerous, so Galen fully expected to be punished by his grandmother, the goddess Aphrodite, after he shot Jack Frost. What he didn't expect was Grandmother to strip his wings and powers, then dump him stark naked in the middle of Detroit's coldest winter on record.
As a social worker, Cassie Stamos has a thing for hard luck cases. However, the naked hot guy who stumbles into her life isn't the typical homeless man she deals with, though Galen Erotes may be just as crazy. Or she thinks so until he introduces her to a talking reindeer.
She knows she can never be a part of his world, but has the kiss she stole from him already condemned him to the mortal realm forever?
***Warning! For my regular readers, this story severely departs from my usual style in that it involves a heterosexual relationship between one man and one woman. I apologize if this subject matter offends some of you.
It also involves instances of matchmaking, elf violence, senior citizen sexual mishaps, and more really bad t-shirt puns.
Novella, approximately 30,000 words