published by PabPub.com Annabelle shone like the moon, about her aura was a pearly glow. Somtoo was dim like a fatigued lantern-void of spark, and a regular bland student like a grain of rice amongst many. He wanted Anabelle to himself and was ready to do anything, even succumb to Honor's inhumane strategies. Honor was an eccentric entity, an expert manipulator of the human mind, a god, according to popular opinions. It was to him Somtoo submitted and surrendered to as a sovereign entity, disregarding the consequences of bowing to a new god and the fact that there was no turning back.

Adjusting her glasses, she cleared her throat and said to them; "never underestimate the quiet ones who sit silently by the corner and watch you through dark shades. They see you, but you don't see them...and I don't know about you, but there is nothing scarier than that." *** Christmas is Red is the third book of The Panorama Puppeteer series, coming right after Chasing Annabelle in production but before it in chronological order, telling tales of a time before Somtoo.