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Believe
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.99
Publisher: Galio Publishing
Published: Nov 12 2025
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
How do you prove you're real... to a world that doesn't believe in real anymore?
Santa has a problem.
Once upon a time, children wrote letters in shaky handwriting and left out cookies that went stale by morning. Now they scroll. They watch reaction videos, debunking channels, and AI Santa exposés with millions of views. To most of them, he's not a person. He's a brand, a marketing campaign, a very efficient logistics myth.
When an over-enthusiastic elf named Jinglebert shows Santa the numbers-engagement down, belief collapsing-panic sets in. For the first time in hundreds of years, the man in red starts to wonder: What if I've been working in the dark this whole time... and nobody sees me anymore?
Against Mrs. Claus's better judgment, the North Pole goes online.
A behind-the-scenes workshop tour. A reindeer livestream. A real-time chimney delivery, filmed from Santa's own sleigh.
The result?
Comment wars. Deepfake accusations. Think pieces calling Santa a centuries-old surveillance system. And when a bitter ex-believer hacks the Naughty and Nice List, the internet erupts-and the magic that held the world together starts to crack.
On Christmas Eve, as he delivers to houses that don't believe in him and screens that call him fake, Santa's body and spirit finally give out. What's left is a single, terrifying question:
If nobody believes in you, is the work still worth doing?
From there, Believe widens its lens, following the people on Santa's list:
- a burned-out mother who just needs one person to see her,
- a couple on the edge who find a forgotten photograph that might save their marriage,
- two former lovers separated by fear and time,
- a grief-stricken conspiracy kid who trusts no one,
- and a circle of strangers who discover that remembering the good things is its own kind of miracle.
Warm, funny, and quietly devastating, Believe is a Christmas story for the age of algorithms and deepfakes-a story about proof and faith, metrics and meaning, and the fragile, stubborn power of ordinary love.
Because real things don't need proof.
They just are.
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