• the final installment of the White Woods series • Kota has disappeared. All that is left of him is his green and white scarf by some red berries and a cliff. Mika's devastated; everyone else is as well, but the young snow leopard has hope. Christmas is right around the corner, and she becomes a chaser right away. Mika has little time for anything but chasing, but she has to find Kota, at a cost. Loyalty to the wrong thing may be the end of her. ><><><>< A short Christmas story based on Scandinavian and Inuit folklore, explaining what goes on behind St Nick's workshop-and the guardians who protect the world when the skies become white, monsters lurk in the snow, and the nights chill your blood ❄️