MYSTERY AT OCEAN DRIVE by Jan Hurst-NicholsonGenre: YA/teen http://amzn.to/e1qwWe
When 17 yr old Jason Hunter sets out to discover the identity of the mystery girl at Ocean Drive he and his friends find themselves caught up in a risky intrigue.
Jason is delivering newspapers when he loses control of his motorbike and almost ends up under the wheels of a Mercedes. An attractive teenage girl leaps out to ask if he is hurt, but before Jason can reply the girl is bundled back into the car and driven off.
Jason’s instincts warn him that the girl is in trouble and he enlists the help of his friends. They make a daring attempt to learn the girl’s identity, but just as it seems to be working, things go horribly wrong...
THE RELUCTANT BELSNICKEL OF OPELT'S WOOD by Kathleen Valentine
THE RELUCTANT BELSNICKEL OF OPELT'S WOOD by Kathleen ValentineYA/Holiday/Romance Amazon.com
When Father Nicholas Bauer becomes the pastor of St. Walburga's in a rural Pennsylvania Dutch community he makes it his mission to revive some of their Old World Traditions including Belsnickel. According to local legend, Belsnickel was an old man who lived in the woods and visited children on the evening of December 6th to see if they've been bad or good. He recruits his childhood friend Gretchen Fritz who owns a quilting shop called the Calico Cuckoo. Both of them grew up with Oliver Eberstark and Father Nick is determined to get Oliver to play Belsnickel for the local children. When they were young Oliver was a popular athlete and local heart-throb but now he is a recluse who lives alone at his grandfather's sawmill deep in Opelt's Wood. As the plans for Belsnickel and Christmas progress Father Nick hopes to understand what happened to Oliver and why he is now a hermit and Gretchen rediscovers why half the girls in town had crushes on him.
