Christmas Urban Fiction

It's the hottest summer on record and New York City has gone dark. Communications go down, EMS, Police and The Fire Department are flying deaf and blind. Subways halt in tunnels, traffic and street lights are out! Tempers grow short, and people panic at the thought of another terrorist attack... Brian, Mel, Brooklyn, and the rest find themselves in the middle of it. "Like the man said," said Mel, "Hell is one floor up". Based on Actual EMS accounts of the 2003 East Coast Blackout.

Bertha decides running a brothel is no longer for her and wants to start a new life. Unfortunately, not everything goes according to plan. During one night in the forest, while she's trying to help a werewolf in need, something happens and she loses her magic. She only realizes her power is gone when she arrives in Southern Kingdom to visit her dear friends, Queen Catherine and Princess Lucy.

It's Christmastime for L.A.'s newest witch, but all Maxie wants to do is Bah Humbug her way through it. This will be her first Christmas without her parents and her friends have been called away. She thinks it's a blue, blue holiday until things get worse. Katelyn, one of the Hotel DenMark maids, was just dumped by her fiancé on Christmas Eve. She's a sobbing mess and Maxie knows how it feels. After all, her fiancé broke up with her in a restaurant.

Home for Christmas is a tale of four very different young women thrown together by war. Finding freedom and independence – as well as love, passion and heartbreak – for the very first time, a unique bond is formed as the hostilities take their toll on Britain. It's September 1940 and the German blitz on London has just begun. The four young girls who live at No. 13 Article Row live under its constant threat. But life must go on…Tilly and Sally both work at Barts Hospital where they witness the cruelty of war first-hand.

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.

Set in a world just around the corner from our own, where Santa Claus really exists and uses your neighbors to keep track of your deeds, Billy Barnaby's Twisted Christmas is a sometimes dark but ultimately uplifting story of how a truly good heart can redeem even the most heartless evil. When teenager Billy Barnaby wins a contest to accompany Santa Claus on his Christmas deliveries, he's delighted at the opportunity to try to turn Santa from his Big Brother-like ways.