Holidays bring friends, family, and…Trouble. At least if your job title is Magical Protector. Cary Redmond spends most of her holidays jumping into danger. Stopping bad guys, protecting innocents, and doing her job as a walking, talking Kevlar vest. Because magic, mayhem, and disasters don’t take holidays off. In fact, sometimes the holidays are the problem. But Cary is always ready to leap into the fight, tackling the dread, the deadly, the bespelled, and the strange. And if she helps a friend along the way, all the better. Because when the holidays bring Trouble, Cary’s on hand to save the day. Don’t miss this year of Cary Redmond adventures all in one collection. Includes Cary and the Cursed Jack-O’-Lantern Cary Holidays Cary’s Galentine’s Day Cary’s Leprechaun Troubles Cary’s Beltane Night Out keywords: Dark urban fantasy; contemporary fantasy; short story series; urban fantasy short story series; Urban fantasy romance; urban fantasy; paranormal romance; dark fantasy; horror fantasy; series paranormal romance; shapeshifter romance; demons and devils; witches and wizards; werewolves and shifters; series urban fantasy; paranormal shifters; urban fantasy magic; magic and mayhem; horror romance; monsters and shapeshifters

This is the large print paperback edition of a collection of short stories and novellas in the Cary Redmond urban fantasy series. All the stories are set around different holidays.

"Based on the episode 'A Scooby-Doo Christmas' by John Collier, George Doty IV, Jim Krieg, and Ed Scharlach."--T.p.

Dylan loves his family's yearly vacation to Holiday and wishes it could last all year. When he finds a flyer asking if he'd like to keep Holiday, he encounters a bigger and better Holiday than the one his family has always visited; he also learns that entering it requires the Founder's authorization. Thus begins Dylan's quest to meet the one of whom people keep saying: "You can't find the Founder; he finds you./He's not just the Founder, he's the Finder too." As Dylan reads of Holiday's origins, he experiences a number of adventures and meets characters who represent the sights and sounds he always finds in Holiday-characters who explain how each of these familiarities points to the Founder's previous rescue of the city's inhabitants. And the more Dylan learns, the more he longs to personally know the one who holds the key to entering the "real Holiday." Writing for elementary-age children and older, author, teacher, and grandmother Starr Meade offers a book that families can read together, discovering along with Dylan how God brings a person to faith. Keeping Holiday is also a charming, insightful way to help children grasp the meaning of the Incarnation.

When hungry Coyote, instead of Santa Claus, visits their desert home on Christmas Eve, the three javelinas must figure out how to save Christmas.

Magical Protector Cary Redmond’s got trouble with a capital T. A sexy leopard shifter with a mysterious past claiming Cary as his mate. A Faery mentor with ulterior motives. Demons on the loose. Innocent people in danger. A sudden change to Cary’s job. An uncertain future. And a few world-ending disasters to stop. Yup. Trouble. All in a day’s work for Portland’s resident Protector. So long as she survives. Don’t miss the first three books in this action-packed, romantic urban fantasy series from bestselling author, Kat Simons. Keywords: Urban fantasy romance, urban fantasy, paranormal romance, contemporary fantasy, dark urban fantasy, horror fantasy, series paranormal romance, shapeshifter romance, witches and wizards, werewolves and shifters, demons and devils, vampire paranormal, series urban fantasy, paranormal shifters, magic and mayhem, urban fantasy magic, monsters and shapeshifters

No one wants a bored dragon… Leave a dragon bored, quests happen. Kaxem knows the inevitability of this. Especially with a best friend like Rebop. But when Rebop brings Kaxem news of a bespelled princess in need of waking, Kaxem, at first, passes on the adventure. He’d rather rearrange his books. Really. He would. But disappointing his best friend proves impossible. Bored dragons are also nagging dragons. Kaxem agrees to the quest. One last quest. And if they happen to save the world, and discover a really good library in the process…he won’t complain. Author’s Note: This story is also published in the collection HAUNTS AND HOWLS AND JESTERS BELLS. keywords: High fantasy; paranormal fantasy; humorous fantasy; magic fantasy; short story collections; dragons; quests; myths and legends; action adventure; epic fantasy; epic fantasy short stories