The Christmas Countdown (Holiday Lake #1)

The Christmas Countdown (Holiday Lake #1)

For the residents of Holiday Lake, Minnesota, there is no such thing as too much Christmas cheer. The tiny town prides itself on celebrating the holiday every day of the year and their halls are decked with boughs of holly all year round. 

Yet this December twenty-third, professional holiday decorator Nat Quinn, known as "The Christmas Queen”, has had enough. After a hectic year helping clients set up the absolutely-perfect-to-the-last-detail backdrops for the festive season, she is ready to relax. That’s when divorced billionaire and workaholic Cyrus Blackstone makes a proposal she can’t turn down: Provide the perfect holiday for his children in exchange for the beach vacation of her dreams. 

A perfect Christmas in twenty-four hours? That’s a tall order, even for the Queen of Christmas and her team in Holiday Lake. As Nat races to fulfill her assignment, she realizes that the real challenge isn't the tinsel and pudding.... it’s not falling in love.

The Mystery of the Holiday Cards

Yes, there is a new Dora Pendragon story. It will be available as part of the Candy Canes and Corpses holiday boxed set, which will be out on November 19th. You can preorder it now on Amazon. Enjoy the excerpt!

Note that this story takes place after The Mystery of the Halloween Mask and before The Mystery of the Christmas Doll (both available in the. Dora still thinks Thomas Lane is human and she doesn't yet realize that her shop's magic is changing.

As keeper of the Magical Curiosity Shoppe, Dora Pendragon has guarded the dangerous and mysterious objects in inventory for millennia. But the dimension-hopping store has now arrived in Banshee Creek, and that, she is sure, means trouble is coming her way. When a deck of antique holiday cards shows up at the shop and she sees a vision of death hovering over one of her customers, Dora has no choice but to step in before the shop's tragic curse strikes again.