This holiday novella is a total and complete delight, a tender m/m romance with also a tense little mystery underneath. Lanyon here tells the story of James, an antique book hunter who is on a mission to gauge the validity of a newly discovered novel by Charles Dickens. The owner of the book is a professor from England, strikingly handsome but unfortunately cold and aloof, and he seems to take a fast dislike to James. All seems lost on this mission, and James is settling into the gloomy thoughts of losing his book commission and celebrating a very impoverished Christmas, but surprising things happen to keep pushing them together, and James finds himself discovering far more than a new classic holiday story.