Let Nothing You Dismay

It's Christmas in Hamlet! Two months after Lucas De Angelis left Hamlet to start his life with Tessa Sullivan, he finds himself driving all the way back to his former home. It's the holidays and, knowing how abruptly he left the small town behind him, Tess convinces Lucas that he has to at least visit his sister for Christmas. Lucas agrees, but only because he has an ulterior motive of his own.  Maria De Angelis is looking forward to spending Christmas with Sylvester Collins. Now that her brother is gone, she can flaunt her relationship with the new sheriff of Hamlet without any of the town gossips ratting her romance out to her overprotective big brother. And, of course, that's right when Lucas and Tess show up at Ophelia unannounced. What promises to be a very interesting holiday is suddenly cut short by a single buzz of Sheriff Collins' radio. A local child is missing. The culprit? Based on the only eyewitness—his four-year-old twin sister—Santa Claus has come to Hamlet. And he's stolen a little boy. *Let Nothing You Dismay is a holiday short story set a few months after the first Hamlet novel, Don't Trust Me, and features another stay at Ophelia—until the cozy, hidden town reveals that it's just as dangerous as ever.