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Hauntings and Humbug: A Steampunk Christmas Carol

Name: Hauntings and Humbug: A Steampunk Christmas Carol
Rating: 4.28 (270 reviews)
Author: Melanie Karsak

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Humbug! This Christmas, Ebony Scrooge will learn the true meaning of the holiday season. It’s Christmas Eve in Victorian London, and Ebony Scrooge is hard at work tinkering weapons of mass destruction and avoiding all things Christmas. When the spirit of her deceased partner, Jacqueline Marley, warns Ebony that she will be visited by three ghosts, Ebony writes the visitation off as a dream. But on this Christmas Eve, the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future must try to pull off a miracle, restoring Ebony’s heart before it’s too late.
Hauntings and Humbug is a retelling of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol , set in New York Times bestselling author Melanie’s Karsak’s steampunk universe.

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