Christmas in Signal Bend — Susan Fanetti

A massive storm hits the Midwest on Christmas Eve. TV meteorologists are calling it Snowmageddon and predicting up to two feet of accumulation by dawn on Christmas morning. They warn everyone to be inside and off the roads by noon. In Signal Bend, Missouri, the townspeople scramble to relocate their traditional Christmas Eve festivities indoors, to the compound of the Night Horde MC, and figure out how to retain some of the magic of their shared traditions. Lilli Lunden, a town leader and the old lady of former Horde president, Isaac, is in charge of that effort. Lilli and Isaac have greater worries than trying to save the town Christmas. Their daughter, Gia, is still in Columbia, where she's a senior at the University of Missouri. She's making the 100-mile drive home on this day, over country roads, and she is not taking the weather forecast seriously. Isaac and Lilli try to get her home before the storm, but she thinks they're being controlling and overprotective. She ignores their warnings, of course. She shouldn't have. A Christmas in Signal Bend is the story of a Christmas in crisis and the efforts a family makes to come together and save the holiday. Among other things.