Start the Christmas season off right with five poignant, clean, Christmas stories by some of your favorite suspense authors. Kick-off your shoes, warm up the hot cocoa, and stoke up the fire. Enjoy. ROCK & ROLL CHISTMAS by Lillian Duncan Someone wants mega rock & roll star, Johnny Rocker, dead. It’s Maddie Cotton’s job to make sure that doesn’t happen. Johnny Rocker believes he doesn’t need anyone or anything—especially God because after all he is a rock & roll god. When the floor beneath his feet crumbles—literally—he hurtles toward a different truth. Since the death of Maddie Cotton’s family, she’s run from life and love by protecting other people as a bodyguard. With God’s help, she’s ready to step out of her comfort zone to search for a different life. But when her boss asks—no begs—her to take on one last job, she finds it hard to refuse. As she and Johnny are thrown together, she discovers another man behind the Johnny Rocker façade—Zeb Walker is a man searching for answers of his own. Being under Maddie’s protection doesn’t stop the threats. As Christmas approaches the danger escalates—someone doesn’t want Johnny Rocker to celebrate A Rock & Roll Christmas. LAST CHANCE by V. B. Tenery Chance Crawford is back in Afghanistan. A place he swore never return to. No longer the team leader of a Marine Recon unit. He’s now a CIA agent, searching the mountains of the Hindu Kush for a Taliban chief who wants to defect. While tracking his objective he encounters two children in need of a protector. And he’s the only one available. It’s mission impossible but he has never run from trouble. No matter the odds. SYLVIA’S SECRET by Mary Vee Detective Branson Carhill invites rich clients to put their trust in him, a man who can solve their case speedily and without informing the newspapers. A master at French, formal dance, dining, conversation, and all manners expected of one in the elite class, he knows how to blend in seamlessly while investigating, as long as they don’t look at his bank account. Sylvia Duvet is missing. She didn’t attend her breakfast appointment. The staff did not see her leave the house, yet she isn’t there. Her daughter arrives at Carhill’s office in a panic, concerned gossipers will create their own stories if her mother isn’t found. When the first hours of investigation do not produce Sylvia’s whereabouts, and Carhill understands every minute of every waking hour has an obligation for the elite, he concludes Sylvia Duvet has either been kidnapped or has run away from home for Christmas. Where are you, Sylvia? SHADOWS OF DOUBT by Susette Williams. An Inspirational Romantic Novella Raffealle Gellermine has a very protective uncle and two protective brothers. They never like the men she brings home. Mathew Flannigan has a past, but for the life of her, she can’t figure out why her Uncle Rob and her brothers are trying to encourage a relationship between them. Could her brothers be right? Does she unconsciously choose the wrong type of men? Can she trust Mathew? Especially with her heart? Will shadows of doubt keep Raffealle from finding true love? Or will Mathew steal more than her heart this Christmas? ANGELS AMONG US by V. B. Tenery In the season of Love, Peace and Joy, a chance meeting with a young woman in a supermarket sets Detective Cole Allen on an urgent quest to save the lives of three young women. It will take the combined skill and dedication of the Twin Falls Homicide Bureau, and a helping hand from God, to locate and end the nightmare of the helpless victims.