Deck the Cogs — Pip Ballantine

A Christmas collection from the steampunk world of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences. Action intrigue and the spirit of the season...A Christmas to Die for by Pip Ballantine and Tee MorrisEven 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 MorrisWellington 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 MorrisIt'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 BallantineIt'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.