Lost

A compelling ghost story from the internationally bestselling author of WICKED.Winifred Rudge a writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of hermassma... » 

A compelling ghost story from the internationally bestselling author of WICKED.Winifred Rudge a writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of hermassmarket astrology book travels to London to start her new novel about awoman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrivalshe finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has disappearedand a ghostly presence seems to have taken over his home. Is the spiritWinnies greatgreatgrandfather who family legend claims was CharlesDickenss childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge? Could it be the ghostlyremains of Jack the Ripper? Or a phantasm derived from a more arcane andinsidious origin? Winnie begins to investigate and finds herself the unwillingaudience for a drama of specters and shades some from her familys peculiarhistory and some from her own unvanquished past. In the spirit of A. S. ByattsPossession with dark echoing overtones of A Christmas Carol Lost presents arich fictional world that will enrapture its readers. «