Topper's Magical Christmas — Donna McDonald

It may be snowing everywhere else, but in Magic, New Mexico, it's hotter than ever!The holidays are happening in Magic, but temperatures haven't lowered from sweltering to slow melt yet. Despite all the lectures to Jessica about life in a desert climate, Topper's young witch daughter still longs to celebrate the festive season as humans in cooler climates do. Top of Jessica's Christmas wishlist this year appears to be getting her mother and father to make her some snow. Conjuring cold is not a magical problem for Topper, or for Stark who's an alien from an ice planet, but getting rid of the men in black who would show up to investigate it definitely would be. Jessica's insistent demands for snow are enough to drive Topper crazy, but now Dr. Lena Verglas from the University of Arizona has arrived in Magic looking for pretty much the same thing. The very human doctor of climate science wants to build a bio-dome and make snow in it. A swarm of academic humans moving to the town? That's never happening so long as Topper can prevent it. Thankfully, Sheriff Theo and Deputy Calyx are in agreement with her about running the human off. Or at least they were until she heard Deputy Calyx started sleeping with the nosy human. Dragons and their libidos—just one more problem she doesn't need.The arrival of six more naked aliens from Glacier, having to deal with a set of bad hyena shifters, Deputy Calyx's Greek dragon family showing up, and Stark wanting another baby is all sending Topper right over the top. As the witch in charge, she's got to get a handle on the mounting chaos before it's too late.