Sam & Lizzie are freezing & hungry on the streets of Victorian London When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins he is rudely turned away Months of struggle suddenly find their focus & Sam resolves to kill the man Huddling in a graveyard for warmth Sam & Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart & so begins Sam's journey led by terrifying spirits through the past present & future after which Sam must decide whether to take the man Scrooge's life or not A perfectly layered tense & supremely satisfying twist on one of Dickens' most popular books cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership