The Kitten Clause: A Darkly Cozy Holiday Fantasy Novella
Krampus was prepared for a second cat. He was not prepared for her terms.
Since Yule moved in, Krampus has acquired a warm kitchen, a meddlesome household, and a Sunday brunch appointment with Santa Claus. His filing system has never been more organized. This is unrelated to his nerves.
Then a six-week-old kitten moves into his horn collection.
Coal is small, black, and entirely unimpressed by his reputation. She also comes with four magical terms, including a permanent warm place, an uncomfortable truth, and an invitation Krampus has spent nearly three centuries avoiding. There is a deadline. Naturally, he begins looking for loopholes.
But a long-avoided letter from Santa has already made their carefully maintained silence difficult to sustain, and Coal's arrival gives Krampus something else to lose. When Holiday HR takes an interest in his increasingly irregular household, the kitten he's beginning to think of as family becomes a dependent spirit subject to relocation.
Keeping her will require more than impeccable paperwork. With the warmth of his home at stake, Krampus must decide whether he can let an old friend back inside and begin repairing the trust between them.
The Kitten Clause is the second book in Tales of Festive Misrule, following The Twelve Days of Catmas: a cozy, family-friendly Christmas fantasy full of magical cats, bureaucratic absurdity, found family, and the awkward courage of trying again.
No romance. Plenty of paperwork.
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