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The Ornament Box

(2026)
(A book in the Clean Chills Christmas series)
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The holidays arrive with a twist in the Clean Chills Christmas series! These 13 standalone short stories—each written by a different Mystery / Thriller / Suspense author—give you all the festive chills without explicit content. Find your perfect fit with tales that delight or give you a fright! (Green covers = lighter stories Red covers = darker stories)One last Christmas in her late mother’s house before the sale. One last chance to say goodbye.

Then she meets Ava—Olivia’s friend, quiet and unsettling, moving through the house like she’s walked its halls a hundred times before.

Lydia has always known where the ornament box is kept. What she didn’t know is what’s been hiding inside it all along. Among the carefully labeled memories is an ornament she's never seen—fragile glass, dated 1989, the year her sister Lauren disappeared. And inscribed on it, in her sister'''s handwriting:

I never meant to leave you.

Ornament by ornament, secret by secret, the family Lydia has believed in her whole life begins to come apart.

The truth doesn’t stay buried forever. And when it claws its way out, it comes for everyone she loves.

The Ornament Box is a psychological Christmas thriller about family secrets, the cost of silence, and the devastating things we do in the name of love. One sitting. No explicit content.

Part of the 13-story Clean Chills Christmas series. Be sure to check them out!


Genre: Romantic Suspense

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