The Christmas Gift: A Ghost of a Chance Novel

Ghost of a Chance #2

by Dean Wesley Smith

Poker Boy and his team have saved the world countless times. The Ghost of a Chance agency follows a similar charge. Superheroes and ghosts, all working for the greater good. But as the holidays approach, both groups face a challenge with higher stakes than either can tackle alone. The Ghost Agents, including newly dead recruits Belle and Nancy, team up with Poker Boy and his team to stop a deadly threat—and save Christmas. Melding his fan-favorite Poker Boy series with his creative and witty Ghost of a Chance series, USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith proves that alive or dead, god or mortal, no one has more fun saving the world. “[The Poker Boy] series is unlike anything else out there. It’s quirky and a lot of fun.” —Amazing Stories

212 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 13, 2014

About the author

Pen Names
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.

With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

Reviews

[Friscomama · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book has a good story if you can put aside the situations that probably can't exist. Just open your mind until you finish the book.

I read this book just after No Plot? No Problem! Revised and Expanded Edition: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty. which left me how Dean Wesley Smith can write so many books year after year.

Yes, I am going to read the number of books I promise this year.
I missed it in 2020, following the USA's president elections, reading about the Covid-19, and losing a week around Christmas to be sick.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great story in a brilliantly clever series, inventive, funny and full of action.

[David Macpherson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Goofy book in a goofy series where good looking sexy ghosts help save the world. In this one, they help save Christmas from being wiped out of a history. Thank you sexy ghost, thank you. But a fast fun read.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fast fun read with a new twist on the ghostly world. Got this as a bonus in the Holiday StoryBundle and will definitely check out the rest of the Ghost of a Chance Agency stories.