Calamity Before Christmas: Circle of the Red Scorpion Holiday Novella

For the first time since Elise’s death, Christmas was beginning to feel like home again for Broderick, Drake, and the family they’d fought so hard to rebuild. The mansion glowed with decorations, the twins were giggling through their first holiday season, and—for one fragile moment—peace felt possible.

And then Santa took the twins.

One moment, the twins were perched happily on Santa’s lap during the Port Angeles tree-lighting ceremony—the next, they vanished in a swirl of unnatural fog.

When Moses senses a demon hiding in the crowd—masked, unfamiliar, and bound to something darker—the Circle acts fast and quietly. There’s no time for police, no mortal trail to follow, and no explanation the human world could ever understand. Drake, Broderick, Sebastian, Moses, and their allies launch a desperate supernatural search through the Olympic wilderness—tracking broken scent trails, demonic residue, and a magical signature none of them recognize.
What begins as a frantic hunt becomes a race against time…and a confrontation with a lonely creature bound by a witch’s dark legacy.

As Christmas Eve approaches, the Devereaux family will face the terror of losing everything—and the miracle of finding it again.

Some families hang stockings for the holidays.
Others battle monsters to bring their children home.