Bøker av Beatrix Hollow

Ho! Ho! No!!Step One: Infiltrate Cringle Academy (which is filled with the snobbiest witches and wizards in existence, ugh)Step Two: Kidnap SantaStep Three: Win back my stolen crownStep Four: Take back Christmas I'm the last Christmas elf and I'm freaking tired of that jolly, twinkle-eyed joke acting like he invented my holiday! I'm tired of witches and wizards turning Christmas into a corporation. And I'm absolutely over the whole elegant Christmas vibe these weirdos created. I mean pastels?! When did Christmas involve PASTELS! I'm competing in this school's famous Christmas Cringle Competition. A week of everything Christmas--baking, snowball fights, gingerbread houses. Oh, I've so got this. There are a few things threatening to ruin my plans though: Professor Jack Frost is winter itself. He's a powerful, ancient elf that could ruin my ruse if he gets too close and realizes who I really am.Nick Krampus, the frightening Krampus monster who enjoys his job of punishing naughty people way too much. Yikes--is kidnapping Santa considered naughty?Pyr Claus. Cringle Academy's little golden prince who I will in no way fall for. I don't care how good he looks or how everyone seems to buy his whole nice guy act. He's a Claus, enemy numero uno. I'm pretty sure they know I've got Santa in my closet...I am so dead.

Desperation for cash has led me down a rainbow painted hallway to Frankie's Funhouse-a children's gambling casino. Or as my boss likes to call it, a pizza arcade.The coworkers are strange, the patrons are disturbing, and the animatronics are possessed. Which I was willing to put up with until my boss died.Well, he was murdered, actually.Now I have to serve pizza and birthday cake while thinking about burning down the mall to hide a body for an animatronic that keeps hitting on me.Drug dealings in the backrooms, puddles of blood seeping out from the storage closet, and parents threatening to talk to my (dead) boss if I don't get their screaming kids' pizza was all manageable...Until I realized I didn't mind Frankie's possessed tongue in my mouth.Author Notes: Previously published in the Creepy Court Monster Mall Anthology. This is the 1980s supernatural prequel to the Umbra Valley series. Although this is in the same (or alternate) universe as the Lux Oleander Umbra Valley books, it is very paranormal. The following books in the series are strongly contemporary with only vague mentions to potential supernatural activities.

Some creatures are fatally flawed. I'm a thrill-seeker, a gambler, and a thief--playing whim to my Greed. However, my sins aren't what I have to fight right now...it's theirs. Three men deemed too powerful and wrong to let live by our Council. They're too devious, too strong, too evil. An unhinged crazy incubus, an obsessive shape shifting beast, and the Dullahan himself--scars, steed, and all. Tricked, captured, captive. They plan to use my power, wield it as their own. I'm their golden ticket, their pot of gold. Kings, gods, and creatures have tried to use my kind and these three monsters are exactly the same. They know that when luck is on your side, the odds are never even. There's an unstoppable hitman on their back and they need something that gives them the upper hand, a guarantee of success. And that something is me. Author Notes: This is a STAND-ALONE urban fantasy romance with lots of love all around.

I'm a professional ghost hunter possessed by a dead witch who has tentacles and slime that he knows how to use. Spectral Studies is tackling our biggest job yet for a Halloween special. However, the haunted hospital in Spain was never supposed to go like this. As soon as we step inside, everything falls apart in one terrible event after the next. Makwa's gone and I'm questioning everything he's told me over the years... I'm left wondering if it was all a farce to use me while he gained more power. I need to find him in this massive haunted building but the place may be too much for me to handle.Especially when Makwa might be part of the problem now.For everyone's sake, I hope that isn't true.Author Note: This is a short story featuring Ava and Makwa from the Myths & Monsters series and is an extension of the epilogue in Seek & Find.