Tis the season...for murder.All psychic P.I. Piper Ashwell wants is a quiet weekend alone where she can avoid the holiday craziness as well as any cases. But when the ski resort's Santa Claus goes missing, Piper is enlisted to help find him.The problem is Piper can't help thinking this missing person's case is really a murder. And she's convinced the murderer is staying in the same ski resort.Can she solve this case in time to save Christmas?

One girl, one Wolf, and a whole lot of mistletoe!Cassie DeMarco is headed back home after failing to hit it big in the city. Her humiliation triples when her well-meaning stepmom signs her up to attend the "Singles in Maccon City Annual Holiday Ball" to find that special someone to share the season with.Dr. David Evangelos made ER Chief at just thirty-four years old. He has money, a house on the beach, a sports car that he loves, and a promising future in Maccon City. But there is one thing he's missing, a mate to share it with! Mistletoe and magic conspire to bring these two together in this steamy holiday tale.

Who can you trust when your only hope lies in the hands of an old adversary? Jac discovers her friends in the city are in danger from a plot at the heart of a government desperate to hang on to power at any cost.War damage and failed harvests are raising tensions––and the Resistance has to stop terrorists from starting another devastating civil war.Jac suddenly finds herself in a key role, using her perceptive skills to warn the rangers of the imminent threat.Firestorm is the third book in the Phoenix Enigma series, the near-future dystopian epic from Jay Aspen.

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, Carolyn Ives Gilman takes citizen science to the stars in her original science fiction short "On the Shores of Ligeia." Our other SF short, "My Children's Home," by Woody Dismukes, paints a picture of a far future orphanage with disturbing social implications. We also have SF reprints by Violet Allen ("The Synapse Will Free Us From Ourselves") and Charlie Jane Anders ("A Temporary Embarrassment in Spacetime"). Maria Romasco Moore brings us our first original fantasy short—"Self Storage Starts with the Heart"—which gives us a plastic-wrapped solution to loneliness. Of course, Ashok K. Banker's series...