A spine-tingling brand-new Christmas ghost story featuring the much-loved Lottie Beck from Alice — atmospheric, moving, and unforgettable. Perfect for fans of Susan Hill, Michelle Paver, Laura Purcell, and classic haunted-house fiction. After leaving Silver Birches, the care home where she worked, twenty-year-old Lottie Beck takes on a new client – the reclusive, cantankerous Reggie Lord – soon discovering his London home is plagued by more than just dust and neglect. Everyone who’s lived as long as eighty-four-year-old Reggie has a story to tell – the trouble is, Reggie keeps his hidden. More companion than carer, Lottie finds her days in his house dragging. Reggie confines himself to one room, all other doors are locked, including the living room, where one strange constant remains: a Christmas tree, as forlorn as the place itself. A tree that stands there, year in, year out – all year. Though they don’t get off to the best start, Lottie and Reggie soon fall into a fragile routine. She reads to him from the classics – he rarely seems keen, but it passes the time. Yet she notices that whenever Reggie is angered – by her, or by a passage in the book – something stirs in the house. Something…unseen. And each time, Reggie withdraws a little further. Lottie becomes increasingly curious. Does he retreat because he’s frightened? Is Reggie haunted by more than just memories? As Christmas approaches and the hauntings grow violent, Lottie must decide: walk away, or use her gift for reading people – not just books – to uncover what lies buried within. No matter the cost. One house. One secret. And a Christmas that never ends… ~~~ Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil's Liar Psychic Surveys Book Ten: Field of Flowers Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) Jed (the story of one of Psychic Surveys most loved and mysterious characters) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise This Haunted World Book Five: Resistance Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker Reach for the Dead Book Four: The Spook Road Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Summer of Grace - A Standalone Mystery Thriller Christmas Ghost Stories Carfax House The Damned Season Wildacre Alice Beulah A London Haunting Morgan the Fay Series: Morgan the Fay Book One: Morgan Morgan the Fay Book Two: Black Morgan Morgan the Fay Book Three: Morgan of the Mists - Due out March/April 2026