A Merry Monster Christmas
(2025)(The second book in the Jimmy's Monster Adventures series)
A Story by JA Armstrong
When belief wavers, even magic can grow cold.
Jimmy O’Keeffe can see monsters—and not just the kind that hide in closets. As Christmas approaches, the spaces between worlds begin to shift, and fear seeps into places it never belonged. When Santa Claus vanishes into a mysterious monster realm called the Falvren, Jimmy must venture into a world where nightmares breathe and time stands still.
Cate Morrissey has spent her life walking between worlds. She protects fragile boundaries that separate the human world from where monsters are born. When Jimmy crosses into danger without her, Cate is forced to confront a fear she’s avoided for far too long: embracing Jimmy as her son. Letting go of her childhood fears proves more challenging than expected.
Meanwhile, Mary O’Keeffe watches as magic continues to challenge the logic that has long ruled her life. As monsters appear, legends become real, and the hearth becomes a place of reckoning, Mary must decide what it means to build a family rooted not in certainty, but in the belief that springs from hope.
Jimmy's world is filled with wondrous things. There are Cinderbogs and Ingleroots, Snudges and Sootwardens, and even Santa Claus. Each must learn to overcome doubt to find their way home.
Because hope is not the absence of fear.
It is the courage to choose love anyway.
A Merry Monster Christmas is a tender, magical holiday tale about chosen family, the power of belief, and the quiet truth that the greatest magic of all is being seen—and welcomed—exactly as you are.
Genre: Fantasy
Jimmy O’Keeffe can see monsters—and not just the kind that hide in closets. As Christmas approaches, the spaces between worlds begin to shift, and fear seeps into places it never belonged. When Santa Claus vanishes into a mysterious monster realm called the Falvren, Jimmy must venture into a world where nightmares breathe and time stands still.
Cate Morrissey has spent her life walking between worlds. She protects fragile boundaries that separate the human world from where monsters are born. When Jimmy crosses into danger without her, Cate is forced to confront a fear she’s avoided for far too long: embracing Jimmy as her son. Letting go of her childhood fears proves more challenging than expected.
Meanwhile, Mary O’Keeffe watches as magic continues to challenge the logic that has long ruled her life. As monsters appear, legends become real, and the hearth becomes a place of reckoning, Mary must decide what it means to build a family rooted not in certainty, but in the belief that springs from hope.
Jimmy's world is filled with wondrous things. There are Cinderbogs and Ingleroots, Snudges and Sootwardens, and even Santa Claus. Each must learn to overcome doubt to find their way home.
Because hope is not the absence of fear.
It is the courage to choose love anyway.
A Merry Monster Christmas is a tender, magical holiday tale about chosen family, the power of belief, and the quiet truth that the greatest magic of all is being seen—and welcomed—exactly as you are.
Genre: Fantasy
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