Book excerpt: It’s Christmastime and Alec and his friends are off to the country for a spooky visit! When relatives of Alec’s best friend Ken Gonzalez begin experiencing ghostly happenings and things that go bump in the night, they call asking for help. After Alec and his friends arrive with Ken’s mom and Mrs. Edgar, they find supernatural intruders who were not invited to the party. Or were they? Settle in with a cozy blanket and some hot cocoa for this haunted short story.