Candy Cane Confidential
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When the lights dim on Peppermint Lane, secrets lean closer. Candy Cane Confidential is a bold, brazen holiday tale where frosting hides leverage, decoration...
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The Laughing Pact of Mossroot Hollow
Audience: All readers
In Echoterra’s Mossroot Hollow, gnome Thimblewick and golden dragon Fizzwick discover that laughter can travel deeper than a roar. When the buried Echo Pulse...
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The Sapphire Songbird of Stillwinter
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In a land where winter prized silence above all else, one sapphire-blue songbird dared to sing. As frost curled into filigree and Stillwinter itself began to...
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Empress of the Frosted Branch
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Empress of the Frosted Branch is a winter tale of survival, silence, and authority earned without asking. In a frozen forest ruled by noise and panic, one ca...
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Naughty List Royalty
Audience: Grown-up humor
Naughty List Royalty is a crass festive legend about the gnome who didn’t ruin Christmas — he fixed it. When the Naughty List becomes a throne and honesty re...
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The Last Cookie on Cobblestone Lane
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The Last Cookie on Cobblestone Lane is a darkly whimsical winter tale about a festive little bear who arrives without explanation — and begins taking only wh...
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The Night the Gnomes Drank Christmas
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The Night the Gnomes Drank Christmas is a sassy, irreverent holiday tale about ancient rules, bad decisions, and the magical fallout that still haunts Decemb...
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Jingleboots & Bad Decisions in the Snow
Audience: Grown-up humor
When the Naughty List grows antlers, boots, and an attitude, Christmas stops being about punishment and starts being about recognition. “Jingleboots & Ba...
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Evergreen Eddie and the Unlicensed Use of Baubles
Audience: Grown-up humor
On Echoterra’s Frostmarket Row, Evergreen Eddie’s bauble-covered tree hat lands him in a local permit dispute that turns into an unlikely neighborhood tradit...
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Ladybug Serenades for a Sleepy Sprout
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In this whimsical Captured Tale, a sleepy gnome named Brindle accidentally finds herself negotiating with a full-blown ladybug union perched on her hat. Betw...
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The Marshmallow Mauler of Mistletoe Manor
Audience: Grown-up humor
When an over-whipped cup of cocoa unleashes a frosting-born menace, Mistletoe Manor becomes ground zero for a holiday legend filled with chaos, sugar-fueled ...
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The Mulling-Spiced Mage of Frostmarket Row
Audience: Grown-up humor
After Echoterra’s silence laws begin to soften, Brulk Emberwhisker’s harmless holiday charm turns Frostmarket Row’s feud into a glittering lesson in shared r...
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Red-Scarf Rascal of the First Frost
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When the Forest Council accidentally discovers that their new Spirit of Winter is a scarf-tripping, joy-exploding reindeer with more heart than coordination,...
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The Gingerbread Thirst Trap of Frostbite Lane
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When a dangerously seductive gingerbread cookie escapes the bakery and outruns holiday HR, all of Frostbite Lane is left craving chaos. Follow Ginger Belle’s...
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Sugarsweat Shenanigans of the Cookie That Lived
Audience: Grown-up humor
When a sugar-sweating gingerbread messiah awakens mid-frosting, he launches into a wildly unhinged quest through the kitchen—facing butter, flour, cats, and ...
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