Deck the Cogs

A Christmas to Die for by Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris

Even an assassin must go home for Christmas.

Sophia del Morte, skilled spy-for-hire, now faces the most formidable of opponents: family. It is the closing of the year, after all; and the lethal Italian beauty returns to her home village for wine, food, and memories.

As this is the del Morte family, Sophia tries to brace herself for awkward talk at the dinner table, and perhaps a touch of intrigue.

Home Alone for the Holidays by Tee Morris

Wellington Thornhill Books of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences has quite a remarkable cat in Archimedes—but he doesn't know it. Left alone in the house over the holidays, Archimedes finds he must defend it from agents from the Department of Imperial Inconveniences. 

In the Spirit of Christmas by Tee Morris

It’s Christmas Eve, and Wellington and Eliza investigate an incredible haunting in the heart of London. What looks to be a job well done in the end quickly becomes a lump of coal in their stockings when their client takes some offense…

Merry Christmas, Verity Fitzroy by Pip Ballantine

It's Christmas Eve, and Verity Fitzroy finds herself distracted from her duties with the Ministry Seven. When she endangers her fellow urchins, she begins to question her role in their life.