A Christmas Carol

YOUR LIFE SKETCHES THE FUTURE. YOU HOLD THE PEN. Utterly selfish and consumed by ambition, Ben Scrooge is the ruthless head of a global financial empire. But when his dead business partner, Marley Jacobs, escapes from Hell with a target on her back, he flees with her into immersive, real-as-life memories of his past. Hot on their heels is the Ghost of Christmas Past, a relentless phantom set on recapturing Marley. As they race through Ben’s sometimes-faulty memories, and confront the events and choices that hardened his heart, regret builds within him over the life he led, and the affection he always felt for Marley but never honoured. Reluctantly, Ben begins to see the roads not taken: tender moments he spurned, friendships he abandoned, and a love that might have redirected him away from his own darkness. But Marley may soon be lost forever, and the ghost’s true motive is bleaker than punishing her: it is a bid to rewrite history itself. Realising that every action echoes into the future, and determined to save each other, Ben and Marley must risk everything on a final, desperate gamble – a chance to change not only their own fate but the fate of the world they helped create. In this propulsive, modern retelling of Dickens’s classic, redemption comes at the price of courage, compassion, and the willingness to face the past head on.