It has nothing to do with Christmas Christmas is a time of good cheer, and theres nothing like that in any of the chapters which you are about to read.



It is nothing to do with the Christmas song. There are no gifts being handed around only tragedy, heartbreak, and disappointment feature within the lives of a number of players in the dramas which unfold before your eyes.



Set in the industrial areas of Amber Valley, Derby and Nottingham, Twelve Days peers into the secrets of some of its inhabitants, taking you on a journey through their lives and sharing with you all of the emotions...

Darelius - a planet in crisis with its civilisation facing the danger of extinction from a virus to which it had no natural defence. The Darelian people had not been at war for many generations, but now faced not one, but two threats, as a warlike neighbour lay in the wings, awaiting its opportunity. The only hope of salvation lay in a cure derived from the flora of a primitive planet in the Orion System - eighty light years distant. It all began on Balan - a planet at war, and also facing its own apocalypse - hundreds of years in Darelius' past... Neal James is a UK author of crime fiction....