1842:?London is preparing for Christmas, but Isabelle Burdett wants nothing to do with the world. Grieving her husband, she has withdrawn from work, family, and even her daughter. Yet as Christmas Eve draws to a close, an unexpected arrival at her door shatters her carefully built solitude ? and brings a choice that could change everything. Present day:?Emily, a history lecturer still mourning her father, is called to a crumbling house in Cheapside, where developers have discovered a stack of old notebooks. They tell the story of three ghostly visitors on a Christmas Eve long ago. But who wrote them ? and how could they have been written before Dickens?s famous tale? As Emily searches for answers, the past and present collide, and long-hidden truths emerge that will haunt both women forever.
