Christmas isn’t the usual time for ghost stories, which is why investigative journalist Sidney Moore thinks this particular one might be just the quirky twist her editor will appreciate for the a benevolent family ghost, star-crossed lovers at Christmastime, and a sweet old lady in a Victorian home right out of a Christmas fairy tale. Or maybe a Dickens novel. Either way, readers will eat that stuff up—if the sweet old lady’s wary grandson Owen Kinsington will just let Sidney dig far enough in his family’s history to find out. But Sidney is like a hound on a scent when she gets hooked on a story, and nothing can distract her from her goal. Not a rival horning in on her story, not the way Owen’s aftershave smells so unexpectedly enticing when he’s arguing with her, and not even the supposed matchmaking tendencies of the family ghost. And besides, everyone knows ghosts aren’t real…
