"Alexis Fletcher hasn't had a merry Christmas since losing her mother. Every December she remembers the joy her mother brought to everyone during the holiday season, and wishes her family could be whole again. And even as Alexis prepares to start a new family with her fiancé, Chase Dupont, outside forces threaten to destroy her potential happiness. But fate has one more surprise in store for Alexis, and it might be exactly what she needs to finally...

Luther and Nora Krank decide to avoid the chaos and frenzy of Christmas by taking a Caribbean cruise during the holidays, but their plans have unexpected consequences.

When Fritz breaks his sister's nutcracker, his Mouse Hunter 5000 video game gets locked in the closet, but the evil Mouse King from the game comes to life determined to ruin Christmas unless Fritz and the Nutcracker join forces to stop him. Includes a CD of songs from the musical and a read-aloud track with the music and story.

An inspirational Christian tale on a dying woman who convinces a busy shopkeeper in Utah to devote more time to his family because their love is God's greatest gift. This is the hardcover edition of a paperback self-published last year.

A journalist happens upon a human interest story that winds up teaching her lessons about love and forgiveness and renewing her own faith in human kindness. On Christmas Eve, twenty-something Hope Jensen is quietly grieving the recent loss of her adoptive mother when her apartment is robbed. The one bright spot in the midst of Hope's despair is a small jar full of money someone has anonymously left on her doorstep. Eager to learn the source of this...

Unable to sleep on Christmas Eve, four children creep downstairs to see the tree, their stockings, their wrapped gifts, and to hear the singing of the carolers.

A collection of holiday love stories includes Fern Michaels' "Making Spirits Bright, " in which Melanie McLaughlin uses her sham marriage to Bryce Landry to adopt two orphaned siblings and give them a real home for Christmas.

After their widowed father puts their grandmother in the nursing home so that he can spend more time with his gold-digging fiancee, college seniors Sara, Hannah, and Sam Cisco set out to free Granny.

Jocelyn Wakefield's Christmas wish is to escape her duties as the President's daughter and official hostess for one day, and enjoy Washington, D.C. incognito, during the holidays. Impossible? Not with a wig, some very different clothes, a secret tunnel, and a grandmother with a butler, both of whom are willing accomplices. But being anonymous in the Capital at Christmas time may turn out to be an impossible dream after all when she collides with political...