Urban Christmas

All I want is a perfect Christmas with great food, amazing friends and the love of my life by my side. The tree is decorated, the feast (cooked by a hearth witch!) is ready, and Connor’s home is buzzing with festive cheer. This year I can feel it: Christmas magic is within my reach.

Ein unvergessliches Weihnachtsfest, dreimal Zeit sich zu verlieben - von SPIEGEL- und ›The New York Times‹-Bestsellerautorin Abby Jimenez Die romantischste Zeit des Jahres lässt die Herzen dreier Paare in miteinander verbundenen Liebesgeschichten höherschlagen. Da ist zum Beispiel Lauren...

Ausgerechnet an seinem 30. Geburtstag geht Bradleys Beziehung in die Brüche. Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und nun hat er weder einen Partner noch Pläne für die Feiertage. Einsam und enttäuscht gönnt er sich zum Abschluss des Tages ein Bad und wünscht sich, kurz bevor er sich ins Wasser...

Tender, nostalgic, and deeply romantic, Love Me Down to Christmas is a heartfelt holiday romance about first love, family, healing, and the kind of love that never forgets its way home. “Love Me Down to Christmas delivers everything we love about a cozy holiday romance—small-town charm...

Two vampires, a human, and a retired elf walk into a blizzard... Rowan Frost retired from the North Pole to make luxury magical items for the rich and powerful. It was going great until a magical blizzard buried half the planet and one of the most dangerous men in the world demanded White Glove service. Now she's in a stolen sleigh, hauling a wildly unstable artifact through monster-infested terrain with a ten-day deadline and a client who doesn't accept failure. The crew her client secured isn't helping.

In a parody of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus makes a visit to a housing project in "da hood".

Six months ago, Eben Meiser drove away his business and bed partner with his miserly ways. Marlie Jacobsen is back now, and she didn't come alone. Expecting his baby, she needs his help to keep her safe from her new employer's mob ties. Dragons guard their treasure with their life, and he soon realizes there has never been a better treasure for him than Marlie and the baby she carries.

My story gives the background of how Albert the Gorilla made his way to the North Pole and his idea of how to help Santa make sure kids with split families have an extra-special Christmas. This story gives children with split families something that is uniquely theirs.

"A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore: A father shares with his family what he learned from Santa's visit the night before. "An Urban Night Before Christmas" by Unknown: In a parody of "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore, Santa Claus makes a visit to a housing project in "da hood".

Hank and Josie own a small nursery in Mays Landing, New Jersey. They have three kids and a house with a mortgage. Josie has worked hard making and selling wreaths to make money for Christmas presents. Two days before Christmas, while she is collecting pine cones for her wreaths, she finds a woman named Helen lying in the woods behind her house. She is bruised and beaten, but won't let Josie call for help.

An unexpected escape. A harrowing hunt. A dark showdown. When a dark fae escapes from Scorchwood, we investigate the breach and discover an old foe has resurfaced to wreak havoc. But the fugitive is deadlier than we expected and begins to leave a trail of bodies in his wake. Tracking him to the fae realm reveals a potential conspiracy, with his ultimate goal linked to his past and the cherished Christmas village. But he has more allies than expected after a three-hundred-year imprisonment, leaving us unsure of whom to trust as he continues to gain power.

Joanie, a struggling college student, inherits a Christmas tree from her great-aunt, who was very wealthy. Joanie would have preferred money to pay for tuition and books. The tree is ratty and ugly. Joanie and her mama decide to put the tree up for Christmas this year, and then throw it away. The tree will not let Joanie, her mama, or her mama’s boyfriend string new lights on it. Every time they try, the lights explode.

Akira's plans are simple: write wedding invitations, bake Christmas cookies, and eat red meat. (The last surprises her, too.) But when Rose, the ghost who haunts her house, asks for a favor, Akira can't say no. Although she's faced danger before, even death, a toddler who doesn't like peanut-butter-and-jelly might be her worst nightmare.

In this short novelette, a little girl hires Jonathan to get rid of a ghost that haunts her family every Christmas. The hauntings have escalated from sightings to full possession. It should be an open-and-shut exorcism, but when Jonathan discovers the truth, it's more than he bargained for....

Guardians don't celebrate Christmas, but this year Quintus doesn't have a choice. When Olivia gives him a very special assignment for the holiday, he will have to reconnect with what Christmas means to him or fail the one person he is destined to save.