When Grandma and Ruby try to pick out a perfect Christmas tree, they keep having problems with others taking the trees, but Max, who was intent on seeing Santa, asks Santa for the tree.

"To unmask a CIA mole, John Wells must resume his old undercover identity as an al Qaeda jihadi--and hope he can survive it. It is the most dangerous mission of John Wells's career. Evidence is mounting that someone high up in the CIA is doing the unthinkable--passing messages to ISIS, alerting them to planned operations. Finding out the mole's identity without alerting him, however, will be very hard, and to accomplish it, Wells will have to do...

When Ruby finally opens her gifts at her birthday party, Max gets his chance to give Ruby an extra special birthday surprise!

CIA agent John Wells returns to Washington. His wounds have healed, but his mind is far from clear. He is restless, careless with his safety, uneasy in his skin. When the CIA finds evidence of a surge in Taliban activity backed by an unknown foreign power, it takes little to convince Wells to return to Afghanistan to investigate. But what he finds there is far from what he expected.

"Dinah Caldwell has been filling her father's role since he abandoned their family four years ago. She and her grief-stricken mom run their subsistence farm deep in the Ozarks, making sure her younger brother never has to worry. Until the day Gabriel Gates, who owns everyone in Charlotte County, kills her mother to steal her family's well. Homeless, heartbroken, and alone, Dinah only has a single razor-sharp goal: revenge. And now that Gates has...

The town of Rossmore threatens to be bypassed by a new highway that will cut through the nearby Whitehorn Woods. While opinions vary as to whether or not the town will benefit, Father Flynn is most concerned with the fate of St. Ann's Well. Slated for destruction if the road is built, the well is believed by some to be a place of spiritual power, by others a magnet for superstitions.

On Easter morning, when Ruby finds all ten of the marshmallow chicks hidden by the Easter Bunny, Grandma must quickly think of a way to make things fair for Max.

Despite his sister Ruby's admonitions, Max waits up on Christmas Eve to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney.

Eleven-year-old Kammie reflects on her life as she fights claustrophobia while waiting to be rescued from a well she fell into while trying to impress some mean girls.