God bless us, every one
(Book)

It's December, and Silver Peak is preparing for its annual Victorian-themed Holly & Ivy Days celebration. Sadie Speers is asked to gather antiques and Christmas memorabilia to display during the opera house's presentation of a one-man staging of A Christmas Carol. Among the treasures she plans to display is Edwin Marshall's signed first-edition copy of the book. But when it vanishes without a trace, a stricken Sadie desperately sets out to find it before Edwin discovers it's gone. The disappearance of the book, an upsetting revelation from her grandson, and run-ins with the play's surly director conspire to make Sadie feel like the embodiment of Ebenezer Scrooge. Can Silver Peak's unique versions of Tiny Tim and the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and to come help her regain her flagging Christmas spirit?