Addie Greyborne is finding your way through the holidays at her bookstore in seaside New England-but a wintertime storm is coming, in more ways than one .

Addie’s getting into the heart for the upcoming Charity Auction-especially since she’s got an 1843 duplicate of Charles Dickens’s A Xmas Carol to donate. Her previous colleagues at the Boston Public Library have confirmed that its value runs toward the high five figures, which should assist with the new pediatric wing. Her disposition darkens, though, whenever a about Murder in the First Model visitor from days gone by appears-Jonathan Hemingway, the daddy of her past due fiance. His presence stirs up unhappy recollections for Addie, but also offers her fuming when Jonathan, true to his womanizing ways, runs off for a lunchtime liaison with Teresa Lang, who’s responsible for the auction.

Soon after, Addie mind to Teresa’s workplace on the hospital-and sees the indegent woman’s deceased body. What she doesn’t discover is her beneficial first edition. What sort of Scrooge would grab from sick kids and commit murder along the way? Like a Nor’easter bears down and a secret emerges about Jonathan’s recent, Addie must discover out if she can appraise people’s motives and personas as well as she can appraise rare books . . .