After the Spirits Come - Beth Ford

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Résumé :
Have you ever tried to completely change your life? One week after the events of A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is celebrating New Year's Eve at his nephew Fred's house, ready to embark on his new life as a gregarious, generous family man with a more charitable business model. However, it soon becomes clear that his transition will be more difficult than predicted on Christmas Day. At the New Year's Eve party, Scrooge meets a doctor who requests to interview him about his experience with the spirits, an interview that leads to others in positions of power doubting Scrooge's mental faculties. And when Scrooge returns home from the party, a threatening note awaits him from men whose lives he ruined in the past and who will not let him be forgiven so easily. Can Scrooge learn to rejoin society? And will the forces converging around him allow him to succeed? If you enjoy atmospheric historical fiction, read now to laugh, love, and cry with these beloved characters in the next chapter of their lives....

Biographie:
Beth Ford is a historical fiction author living in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Her other novels include In the Time of Spirits and Love Between Times. She is also the author of the Cassie Woods, Reporter novella series....

Sommaire:
Have you ever tried to completely change your life? One week after the events of A Christmas Carol, Ebenezer Scrooge is celebrating New Year's Eve at his nephew Fred's house, ready to embark on his new life as a gregarious, generous family man with a more charitable business model. However, it soon becomes clear that his transition will be more difficult than predicted on Christmas Day. At the New Year's Eve party, Scrooge meets a doctor who requests to interview him about his experience with the spirits, an interview that leads to others in positions of power doubting Scrooge's mental faculties. And when Scrooge returns home from the party, a threatening note awaits him from men whose lives he ruined in the past and who will not let him be forgiven so easily. Can Scrooge learn to rejoin society? And will the forces converging around him allow him to succeed? If you enjoy atmospheric historical fiction, read now to laugh, love, and cry with these beloved characters in the next chapter of their lives....