Silver Bells — Sandy Lender

With a mature female main character, this Christmas horror story offers a quick read, clean, festive, suspenseful, strategically violent, cleverly humorous view of adults handling spiritual warfare for the holidays.When Ivy Light travels to her dearest friend's new home for Christmas, an eerie winter backdrop disturbs her, but the Harris family's personal security detail—the debonair John Knightley—intrigues her greatly. The handsome gentleman has his hands full with his client being stalked by more than unethical business moguls. There are hybrid wolf-bear creatures and a manipulative side chick to worry about, after all.It'll take extra Christmas cheer for Ivy to bring comfort and joy back to her best friend amid the tragedies and paranormal threats this year. Readers are welcome to join in the festivities at Reindeer Creek…and help the families at the Harris house divine what's reality, who's a foe, and how to thwart the evil side of a spiritual war.