In this third novel by the acclaimed bestselling author of Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, famed children’s book author Winifred Rudge travels to London to research a book about a woman who is being haunted by Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival she finds that her stepcousin John Comestor has mysteriously disappeared, and a ghostly presence has taken over his apartment in the 19th-century rowhouse once owned by Winnie’s great-great-grandfather. Is it the ghost of the grandfather, who family legend claims was Charles Dickens’s childhood inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge Or a spirit from a more ancient age

In the spirit of A.S. Byatt’s Possession and touching on A Christmas Carol,
Peter Pan, and the legend of Jack the Ripper, Lost creates an amazingly rich fictional.