An unexpected gift from a secret santa had arrived, and only one person knew how it had gotten there. It was the weekend before Christmas and as usual the family tradition was that everyone gathered in the home of George and Hettie Ivory. Sons, daughter, grandchildren, cousins and sometimes the next door neighbour with their seven children. Hettie would spend the three days before preparing hams, checking her home made pickles and producing several trifles. Some contained Sherry for the adults and a less alcoholic one for the kids, although they never forgot the year when she had helped herself to a sherry while cooking got the trifles mixed up and the kids ended up slightly tipsy.
The tradition was that everyone had to arrive at twelve noon, and all had to bring food for the buffet. Normally it was the neighbours that arrived first. They always made a cake and provided the sausage rolls.
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Alucard St. Vincent finds herself in her own personal hell. Which is impressive for the princess of the underground. She must find a way to save her only friend from The Holy Trinities. Achieving this goal does not come without cost. Nothing ever does. Soon enough Alucard finds herself not only trapped in a mystery, but captured by a God.
Lia finds herself having to make a life-changing decision when a secret Santa gift arrives.
Emma, a 29-year-old office worker, finds a gift on her doorstep one day. She is curious and brings it inside, wondering who sent it. At work, she shows it to her coworkers, but they all laugh and say they didn’t give it to her. Emma spends days trying to find out who the mystery giver is, but she never discovers the truth. It became a fun mystery for her, even if it was a bit frustrating.
Carol's weekend shopping for everyone else is interrupted by an unusual gift of her own.
A heart-warming Christmas tale. Five-year-old Olivia lays down the law on Christmas Eve: "Make sure there are enough cookies, and milk for Santa and his reindeer". However, when bad weather plays Grinch and threatens to dampen Christmas cheer, her dad must do everything possible to keep her faith alive in Santa.
In order to keep up with the spirit of the holidays, a man about to retire reluctantly agrees to participate in the office Secret Santa challenge. Little did he know that the tradition would continue after he retired.
A few days before Christmas, a young woman shows up at the office of Shawn Roper, a down-on-his-luck private detective, to ask him to help her find her missing lover. What at first seemed like a typical case of a boy dumping a girl turns out to be a more complex case than it seemed at first, becoming the great hope for Shawn to recover his lost reputation as a private detective.
A man experiencing a traumatic situation faces it.
The frozen lake cracked beneath his feet. It was late December, and the stars were just starting to glimmer in the frozen black sky above.
"Come, Asher," he called to his black shepherd running swiftly behind him, near invisible in the nighttime cloak.
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