Christmas is under new management. God help us all. Thirty years after a catastrophic North Pole experiment left scientist Irving Coffey trapped in artificial cold and his wife suspended in a cryogenic chamber, the Kringle family’s old promises are finally coming due. Santa Claus is dying, his spoiled teenage son is next in line, and a manipulative elf advisor is quietly turning the succession into a power grab.
Jack Kringle thought he was done with Christmas. His twin brother Dale wanted only a quiet life with Caroline. Their sister Lucy has been exiled so long she barely belongs to the family at all. But when the new regime threatens the life Irving has spent decades trying to save, he becomes Captain Pluto, seizes the North Pole, and declares war on Christmas itself. Captain Pluto Conquers Christmas is a darkly comic holiday fantasy about family, power, grief, corrupted magic, frozen science, and the people sacrificed to keep Christmas alive.
