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Christmas Scrooges / Postage Due: Christmas Card in a Bottle Mystery
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 21 2025
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.46 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Pensacola at Christmas. A retired postal chief turns Christmas Scrooge, seizing the coast's Christmas Cards in Bottles and stamping each one Postage in a Bottle - Fees Due.
Across the bay, a lighthouse door hides a missing sailor-and a town must decide whether to keep quiet...or deliver.
When Ernest Foreman is forced out by a hard-line Rear Admiral, he weaponizes order and hoards the shoreline's bottled Christmas cards. Each confiscated note is a heart on hold-until four unlikely couriers refuse to let December lie:
Samantha Hale, the Admiral's daughter, carrying hope like a red ribbon at her wrist.
Detective Leigh Dorsey, whose law actually bites.
Oliver Quinn, a reporter with a camera that tells the truth.
An angel in work boots, whose only job is making sure good news arrives.
As the base spins a tidy story, evidence leaks-a hospital wristband, three Cokes on a tray, a motion log that doesn't match the weather. The town builds a Receiver's Table and turns a crowd into a choir. On Christmas morning, a hatch must open, a man must repent in daylight, and a message must do the one thing messages are born for:
Arrive.
CHRISTMAS SCROOGE: No Postage, No Christmas is a lighthouse-lit mystery of accountability and grace-clean, heart-pounding, and cinematic-about what happens when a city decides that delivery is not decoration, it's salvation. Fans of A Christmas Carol re-imaginings, coastal suspense, and redemption arcs will feel right at home on Sea Coast Highway.
Signed. Sealed. Delivered. No Postage Due.
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