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Christmas is a magical time when friends gather to watch zombie porn and fathers tell their children heartwarming stories of murder. This collection brings together three tales of Christmas, death, genocide, and teddy bears. This collection contains the following stories by Tim Lieder: "Santa Claus Dies", "The Xmas Video", and "The Man in the Red Suit".

During a Christmas Eve wedding at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Ellen and her friends are visited by multiple ghosts. The spirits have come to tell their stories to right the wrongs that history has done to their memories. Each of them died in Asheville with their voices stifled. One spirit is particularly adamant and threatening, despite her small size, and her mood fluctuates like the mountain winds surrounding the great estate. She claims to be the ghost of Zelda Fitzgerald, and she wants her story told, even if she has to kill to make it happen.

Attempts to get Stacie in the holiday spirit fall flat when Santa’s elf finds herself in a shooter’s crosshairs. With another shooting, initial theories go up in smoke and the search is on for the true motive. Stacie avoids her own stressors following up on the shooting and murder. Faced with relationship turmoil and a killer on the loose, Stacie embraces her "bah humbug" perspective as she seeks to identify the culprit.

The Cricket on the Hearth, published in 1845, is the third in Charles Dickens' series of "Christmas Books." The story centers around the hearth and home of the good-hearted carrier, John Peerybingle, and his young wife Mary—affectionately called Dot by her husband. Their baby boy is cared for by a clumsy nanny, Tilly Slowboy. The household is completed by Boxer the dog and the cricket on the hearth, who acts as a guardian angel to the family. When disaster looms following the arrival of an elderly stranger, the cricket appears in fairy form to save the day.

It's Christmas! A year since their last case, and Adam and Colin are called out of semi-retirement when Stonebridge legend and regular town Santa, Gerald Agnew, is found dead in the snow. The police believe his death to be a drunken accident, but evidence that our amateur detectives uncover points to something more sinister. When DI Whitelaw dismisses their claims, Adam and Colin must navigate drug dealers, deception and department store Santas to get to the truth.

Shortly before the holidays, inventor and former assassin Missi Bombay gets orders to perform one last job. It's the granddaddy of all hits-to be carried out on Christmas Eve, no less. Missi knows she has only one chance at success, so she enlists the help of her cousins Gin, Dakota, and Coney. Together the Bombay cousins come out of retirement to stamp out the world's most evil cabal.

It's tradition that on everyone's birthday, the three couples gather to celebrate. They've toasted each other's big life milestones, and been there for each other through loss and disappointment, too. Nathan is the first to turn 40, and when the cake arrives, he makes a shocking announcement. The birthday ritual, and the group of friends, will never be the same again. Confessions follow, and secrets get revealed. One couple's crumbling marriage forces the other two couples to reexamine their own, and the fault lines that lurk beneath. Will their bonds be strong enough to survive?

For the town of White Eagle, Montana, the house that served as the subject of ghostly stories by the campfire was a huge old mansion built more than 50 years ago by a wealthy industrialist as a summer home for his wife and five children. The house, void of love and laughter, served as a sort of luxury prison far away from the hustle and bustle of Hartford Harrington’s full and busy life in San Francisco.

The entire Thomas family takes a Thanksgiving trip to a mountain cabin after Tess learns that her father visited the area every autumn to hunt and fish before his supposed death in a fiery truck accident. After arriving at the cabin, Tess and Tony, along with Mike and Bree, team up to investigate a suspicious death, while Tess and Tony secretly talk to people who live in the area and once knew her father. Hoping to finally find answers for her unanswered questions regarding her father's current whereabouts, Tess widens her search, which leads her to a startling realization.

When the earl her father had promised her to turns out to be an unspeakable cad, Ava Brunswick is not willing to become an abused and overlooked wife. Defending herself against the earl's despicable advances, she is forced to take drastic action and flee. Remaining in England is out of the question, and there's a ship headed for the Americas right there. The captain seems more inclined to ask questions than take her money and look the other way, but Ava is determined, and soon the Stella Marie is casting off...and Ava is headed for a new life.

Coon Creek, a conservative, industrial, blue-collar town, has seen better days. Golden Springs is home to Antaeus College, a private institution with a tradition of liberal politics. No love lost between those two. Mazie Tuttle knows both towns well. Born and raised in Coon Creek, she enrolls in the Antaeus College summer literary program being taught by the famous radical novelist, Roscoe Alolo. As tensions flare between the two towns over a statue of Coon Creek’s founding father, one act of vandalism follows another, and Mazie feels caught in the middle of the hostilities.

Aria Bancroft had been in love exactly one time. It didn’t go well, and ever since, she’s been floundering. As her friends begin to couple off with their new girlfriends, Aria begins to wonder if she can ever feel that kind of love again. London Carlson met a girl in high school and fell in love. After moving away, she tried to find that kind of connection with other women, but it was never the same. Now that they’re both adults, can they put their past behind them and search for what could still be possible?

The Halloween Parade is coming up, and former CIA agent-turned-suburbanite Merry Wrath's Girl Scout Troop hopes to repeat a 1st place trophy for the 3rd year in a row. But when they find a dead woman dressed as a witch, a mysterious treasure, and face a ruthless kidnapping, it looks like Merry's in for a different kind of triple threat. To add fuel to her bonfire, Mom's in town—meaning Merry has to replace all that bullet-riddled furniture in the guest room—and with her wedding date approaching, her groom-to-be's twin taxidermist sisters are insisting on doing the decorating.

A taboo Christmas at Bramble Hall with his stepsister, Edith, might have been arousing enough for Damian, but first, there is to be a weekend pheasant hunt at Oatland Hall. Their hostess, Madelyn Jacobsen, is an icy lady who is true as steel to her older husband, and Edith has made a bet with her stepbrother that he will be unable to seduce the virtuous Mrs. Jacobsen before the weekend is over. If he should succeed, she will let him have her maid, Annie, as his Christmas present. And there is also a pretty chamber maid at Oatland Hall who has caught Damian's eye.

A very merry Kissmas! Caro beschließt kurzerhand, über Weihnachten nach New York zu fliegen, um ihre Freundin Ivy zu besuchen und in Ruhe ihren Herzschmerz zu verarbeiten. Kaum in New York angekommen trifft sie auf den gleichermaßen frechen wie gutaussehenden Aiden, der ihre Pläne gehörig durchkreuzt.

A very merry Kissmas! Philippa und Dylan sind seit ihrer Kindheit und nunmehr 15 Jahren befreundet. Beide nehmen an der größten New Yorker High Society Hochzeit des Winters teil – allerdings nicht gemeinsam, denn Philippa hat ein Date mit dem aalglatten Frauenschwarm Carter. Dieser Umstand sorgt nicht nur für einen hitzigen Konflikt zwischen den Freunden, sondern fördert auch ungeahnte Emotionen zutage.

A very merry Kissmas! Durch ihre Freunde Grayston und June wird auch Lilly zu einem Silvesterdinner im altenglischen Herrenhaus Green Manor eingeladen. Gastgeber sind die beiden Zwillinge Preston und Blake Beaufort, denen die Frauen zu Füßen liegen – außer Lilly. Sie ist fest entschlossen, sich dem Charisma Prestons zu entziehen, muss zu ihrem Unbehagen aber bald feststellen, dass Prestons Anwesenheit sie doch nicht ganz kalt lässt.

A very merry Kissmas! Jeder Bewohner und jede Bewohnerin der Weißen Täler beherrscht die Gabe des Eiswirkens – nur Edda nicht. Während ihre eigene Existenz immer mehr Fragen aufwirft, stellen eine mysteriöse Begegnung mit einem Windwolf und dem charmanten Fynn alles, was sie bis dahin zu glauben schien, auf den Kopf.

A very merry Kissmas! Als Sturmtochter Ava von ihren Freunden für einen Weihnachtsmarktbesuch nach Edinburgh gelockt wird, gerät die magische Freundesgruppe unverhofft in einen Kampf gegen übernatürliche Elementarwesen, bei dem besonders Ava an ihre Grenzen gerät. Während der gutaussehende Lance ihr hilft, die Kontrolle über ihre Magie zu behalten, kommen sie sich näher.

A very merry Kissmas! Heiligabend, 16 Uhr: Sophie eilt verzweifelt ins Waldenfields in Washington, ein traditionsreiches familiengeführtes Kaufhaus, um ein paar letzte Einkäufe für das familiäre Weihnachtsessen zu machen, das sie dieses Jahr ausrichten soll – obwohl sie nicht kochen kann. Zu allem Überfluss bleibt sie kurz vor Ladenschluss im Fahrstuhl stecken. Allerdings nicht allein, denn ausgerechnet der attraktive Matt, der Sophies Herz sofort zum Rasen bringt, befindet sich ebenfalls im Fahrstuhl.