title: Mistletoe: Four Holiday Stories
author:  Hailey Abbott 
description: Grade 9 UpThis confection serves up a quartet of satisfying selections chock-full of relationship drama and perfect party dresses. With settings from New York to Hollywood, and from high-end department store to the neighborhood mall, these fast-paced stories contemplate the meaning of that special someone at Christmas and Hanukkah, be it a boyfriend, a best friend's boyfriend, a sibling, or a ghost. Laced with a liberal sprinkling of love, lust, and longing, this collection will leave readers seeking out the mistletoe themselves. Sparkling good fun for the holidays.<i>Teri Markson, Los Angeles Public Library</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # At Midnight and Other Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Ada Cambridge
  
  
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  AT MIDNIGHT
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II. Mystery
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III. The Scent Lies
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV. The Honest Truth
  
  
    
  CHAPTER V. The Spirit Of Murder
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VI. The Catspaw
  
  
    
  CHAPTER VII. Discovery
  
  
  A BREATH OF THE SEA
  
  
  TWO OLD FOGIES
  
  
    
  CHAPTER I
  
  
    
  CHAPTER II
  
  
    
  CHAPTER III
  
  
    
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  A SWEET DAY
  
  
  THE WIND OF DESTINY
  
  
  
      
  
  
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  ## AT MIDNIGHT
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  They sat in their American buggy at the turn of an English road—an
  
  
  Australian bride and bridegroom, on their wedding tour. It was a bit of
  
  
  the "old country" that had not been syndicated and modernized since the
  
  
  bridegroom had seen it last—when he was a young fellow at Cambridge,
  
  
  paying visits to the houses of his university chums be