Arson for Christmas
(2026)(The fifth book in the Love, Lies & Alibis series)
A novel by Judith A Barrett
Christmas at Lewiston Manufacturing is getting dangerously hot.
HR manager Mary Maas would happily skip the holidays altogether, but someone has other plans. Mean-spirited Christmas cards appear on employees’ desks. A candle is mysteriously lit in Mary’s office. Then a fire breaks out, and the incidents become far too personal to dismiss as holiday pranks.
When Mary’s house burns and her closest friend is brutally attacked, GBI agents move in to protect her. So does Logan Davidson, Mary’s longtime friend, whose determination to keep her safe is beginning to feel like something more.
As Mary digs through year-end reports, she discovers troubling discrepancies buried inside Lewiston Manufacturing. Phantom employees. Suspicious payments. Millions of dollars at stake.
Someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep those secrets hidden.
Now Mary and the investigators must force the arsonist into the open before Christmas Eve.
Because this Christmas, somebody isn’t just playing with fire. They’re willing to kill for it.
Genre: Romantic Suspense
HR manager Mary Maas would happily skip the holidays altogether, but someone has other plans. Mean-spirited Christmas cards appear on employees’ desks. A candle is mysteriously lit in Mary’s office. Then a fire breaks out, and the incidents become far too personal to dismiss as holiday pranks.
When Mary’s house burns and her closest friend is brutally attacked, GBI agents move in to protect her. So does Logan Davidson, Mary’s longtime friend, whose determination to keep her safe is beginning to feel like something more.
As Mary digs through year-end reports, she discovers troubling discrepancies buried inside Lewiston Manufacturing. Phantom employees. Suspicious payments. Millions of dollars at stake.
Someone has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep those secrets hidden.
Now Mary and the investigators must force the arsonist into the open before Christmas Eve.
Because this Christmas, somebody isn’t just playing with fire. They’re willing to kill for it.
Genre: Romantic Suspense