A Kudzu Christmas — Faye Snowden

Long-held family secrets are revealed over Christmas dinner… a crazy uncle has a visitation from sweet-talking angels… a baby disappears from a neighborhood nativity tableau… a woman stakes out a diner for her lover's killer… a world traveler finds a unique gift in an exotic locale… a vampire sleuth returns home for the holidays… For the twelve days of Christmas, River City Publishing gives to you twelve mysterious stories, and all with a distinct, regional twang. Crafted in the workshops of some of today's best Southern writers, these original tales -- ranging from the humorous to the thrilling to the downright eerie -- are guaranteed to stave off any long winter's nap, no matter how cozy your seat by the fireside.