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Did you know that in Victorian England a part of the Christmas celebration was the telling of ghost stories? And the greatest and most beloved of all Christmas ghost stories is A Christmas Carol by the great Charles Dickens. Sit back and be prepared to be just a little scared but in the end you will be very much into the holiday spirit (or spirits) while listening to this wonderful rendering of this most classic of all Christmas ghost stories.

At sixteen Helena Miller gives birth to her son and is sent to a Magdalene asylum in Dublin. In the asylum, she undergoes a torrent of abuse from the nun's, and is treated as a slave. Then, one day in December 1957, her Aunt Susan arrives at the asylum, with a surprise that will change her life forever. Set In the 1950's, this Christmas story is based on true events, in which thousands of women were sent to Magdalene laundries for having children out of wedlock. The Magdalene laundries ran from the 19th to the late 20th century, with the final laundry closing in 1996. This story is part of ...

Brian Baker has been sentenced to an anger management support group for the second time. He's got problems and according to him, it's because he's been on Santa's naughty list since he was a child and he's sick of it. When he is offered the chance to get off the list at long last, he jumps at it and he finds himself on a path that helps him to see that there may be more than one way to wind up on the naughty list. Will he find a way off the naughty list once and for all or will this year be it for Christmas? Can Christmas be saved by one of the naughty ones? And what is the secret under ...

Daniel Tucker used to love Christmas, but when tragedy strikes, he shuts off his heart and grows cold and his world grows cold around him. He turns his back on his friends and family. One fateful night in a local mall teaches Daniel how his actions have affected others in his life and soon he begins to discover a lost part of himself and gives him a chance to recapture his humanity before it's too late.

Halloween is growing near, and Matt's buddy Ray, already spooked by strange noises in the morgue, insists the old mansion down the street from Edna's is haunted. When Matt also sees a girl standing at the window of the abandoned old mansion, plans are made for a ghost hunt! With Stacy on her way into town for Halloween, bringing with her some very alluring costumes for her best friend LeAnn and herself, there is sure to be more than a little fun mixed in with the chills! Taking place after The Velvet Sea but before The Tender Shore, this is a fun holiday treat for fans of this unique series.

A MATT RANSOM HALLOWEEN: Halloween is growing near, and Matt's buddy Ray, already spooked by strange noises in the morgue, insists the old mansion down the street from Edna's is haunted. When Matt also sees a girl standing at the window of the abandoned old mansion, plans are made for a ghost hunt! With Stacy on her way into town for Halloween, bringing with her some very alluring costumes for her best friend LeAnn and herself, there is sure to be more than a little fun mixed in with the chills! Taking place after The Velvet Sea but before The Tender Shore, this is a fun holiday treat for ...

The inaugural entry in the Matt Ransom series, The Velvet Sea, breathed fresh life into a sub-genre of sci-fi many thought dead. Filled with action and dripping with sensuality, each successive entry has only gotten better, expanding on this unique world while tackling sensitive subjects such as abuse and incest, suicide and faith, and for Matt Ransom, what it truly means to be a bio-organic with a soul. Readers have been guided from a dystopian Earth where love was in short supply and global conspiracies abounded, to a recovered Earth, where the tide against those who would ruin what ...

Christmas was fast approaching at the conclusion of Eight Blonde Dolls, and A Candy Red Christmas finds Seth and Caroline off to South America for a holiday both love. However, with Harry’s time possibly running short, and Candy in need of the forgiveness she cannot find within herself, neither has ever seen a Christmas more in need of miracles.

Everett Jordan has become famous for his unabashedly romantic tales of love. But no one knows Everett Jordan is the pseudonym for Nick Barrow. Each day Barrow goes to the public library to write his ethereal stories of love, because the girl who inspired them when he was at his lowest, works there. Jennifer has no idea that Nick Barrow is also Everett Jordan, and he has no idea that her feelings for him are as tender as his own, in this uplifting and old-fashioned feel-good Christmas treasure sure to warm romantic hearts. Set against the backdrop of a snowy Christmas in the city, Love at ...

Christmas on Mavis Street is a comic and nostalgic novel about Catholic school, childhood and family in the 1950s, following poor little Ray Bellini as he pines after the most beautiful girl in the sixth grade, determined to kiss her by Christmas.Ray and his friends realize that the sixth grade is different. For one thing, they now like girls. Ray’s heartthrob is Theresa Mangiaverde, a blonde blue-eyed beauty who is unattainable.Ray perseveres. Along the way he and his pals encounter adventures, disasters and triumphs at their grammar school run by Dominican nuns—Our Lady of the Very ...

When Chris Kringle rolls into the charmingly festive town of South Bendover, Massachusetts, he’s not expecting much more than a quiet escape from his past. Instead, he’s roped into the role of “Naughty Santa” for the town’s infamous Naughty or Nice Festival—complete with a fitted Santa suit, cheeky traditions, and some very unexpected perks.

When Dixon inadvertently offended an unhinged and aggressive kid at school, the boy shows up at his house with his two brothers to get revenge. This kid and his family are into witchcraft. Dixon and his father assumed they were crazy, but are they...

When Frank took a retreat to a remote Scandinavian village in search of peace and quiet to write his novel, he never expected to run into the mysterious and frightening Christmas tradition of the local residents. It's vile and and evil, and goes against everything that he believes. They say it's for his protection, but how could it protect him? And from what? Surely it won't matter if he refuses to participate...

Adrian's friend has a peculiar gift. Every now and then, he stares off into space and his eyes roll up in his head, then he pronounces something prophetic about the future. He's been doing it since middle school, and he's never been wrong. Not once. So, what does Adrian do, when his friend stares into space, rolls his eyes up, and says that this will be Adrian's last Christmas?

Escape to Calabria with this 'terrific tale of mystery and romance, set in Italian sunshine'. The Calabrian Coast books are standalone stories that intertwine with recurring characters. When Alice Baker discovers that she’s been adopted, she knows she won’t have peace until she’s found her Italian birth mother. But all she has is a letter written twenty-five years ago and an old address. Jaded about love and unable to forgive his ex-fiancée and his brother, Paolo Rondino is struggling to find inspiration for a sculpture that will make or break his career. Hoping that a trip home will...

When my kinky billionaire boyfriend puts on a Santa suit, things heat up like Miami in July. This grumpy Dom can make being bad feel so so good. Of course Matt left it all till the last minute. It would be just a “quick” shopping trip to town by himself. Add in a freak snowstorm and we are short one dad for Christmas Eve. Cue the sleigh bells because Santa just burst through the door. Fun was had by all but I recognize that gleam in Santa’s eye. I’ve been a bad girl this year and Santa has put me on the naughty list. When I sit on Santa’s lap I’m not sure if it’s for ...

A woman who lost her husband during the war never expected that she would be spending this Christmas honeymooning. As Jerry and June drive through quaint towns in snowy Vermont, Jerry's ex-wife, locked up in a hospital for the insane, and an escaped murderer from a local prison cast a shadow over their Holiday plans. Before long, June's dreamy Christmas honeymoon becomes a full-blown nightmare.

Alicia estaba deseando que llegaran las vacaciones para librarse durante unos días de su jefe y de su ex, y tiene la mala suerte de encontrárselos a los dos en Ibiza. La culpable de que haya elegido ese destino es Amanda, la amiga loca que la convenció para que le acompañara a reencontrarse Michael, un camarero buenorro que conoció en la isla hace cuatro años y con el que tiene asuntos pendientes. Mario, Lord Cactus, es el jefe de Alicia. Está para caerse de espaldas, guapo, sexy, carismático, pero también borde, exigente, duro y avasallador como él solo. Mario nunca descansa, ni ...

Grover’s Creek is a wonderfully nostalgic and unabashedly sentimental Christmas fantasy. Filled with Americana and imbued with the longing most of us feel for a better time in our shared history, there is something universal in Nick’s story of disillusionment with the present woes of the world. Searching for something more than his life as a crime photographer for a major paper in a metropolitan city has given him, what he finds can only be described as a Christmas miracle. A town steeped in the past, no longer on any map, and barely remembered, may hold the key to his future if he can ...

Unlike others in the genre, The Jasmine Bar is set in both Thailand and the UK and so much more than just another formulaic tale of exploitative men and cheating bar girls. Rejected by co-worker Rose, solitary blue-collar worker Jon Verity finally takes his finger off Life’s snooze button and takes an impulse holiday to Thailand. Pattaya too seems like just another hideous mistake, but in time he becomes smitten by little Ashai, and a second trip sees things developing, along with emotional visits to the river Kwai, and Ayuthaya, former capital of courtly old Siam. Back in the UK once ...