The Twelfth of Never is a collection of 15 stories that range from mysteries to lost loves to domestic challenges and humor. Hicks utilizes O’Henry-style irony and surprise endings, as well as a sprinkling of fantasy, to jolt the senses.

The story Where’s George? comes from a 1992 missing persons case Hicks collaborated with the Unsolved Mysteries TV show to investigate. The rest of the tales are straight from her off-beat imagination.

With lengths from two to thirty pages, each story is a fast-paced read that will make you laugh and cry and ponder the world.