Christmas means a hundred different things in a hundred lands. But no matter where you travel, winter is a time for storytelling. Raven Wakes the World presents four very different holiday stories sure to touch the heart. In "I'll Be Home for Christmas", a folklorist explores the impossible beginnings of an urban legend about a lonely ghost who only appears on Christmas Eve, and finds an original source in the last place she expected. In "Raven Wakes the World", an ancient Inuit myth and a haunting romance come to life for an artist wounded in the heart, a creator lost in winter who's forgotten how to create, and how to love. In "Make Up Test", a romantic screwball comedy, a young woman's Christmas wish comes true in the most literal, and hilarious, way possible. And in "The Star in the East", a widower is left to unravel his late wife's last mystery. Dodging the agents of a sinister Count, he discovers a priceless treasure and a secret that's remained unsolved for more than two thousand years.

Christmas is a season of gifts and miracles, of love and healing and the joy of homecoming. These holiday gifts will wake the wonder of the season for all readers, young and old.