Holly Chase is visited by 3 ghosts on Christmas Eve. They tell her she needs to stop being a selfish, self centered person or she will be sorry. Holly laughs and then dies. In the afterlife, she is stuck working as the “Ghost of Christmas Past” for Project Scrooge. Every Christmas there is a new person to scare and try to change before it’s too late. Holly is miserable! She is stuck at 17 and her friends and family have continued life without her. But is she stuck? Is there a way out? Read this fantastic updated retelling of a Christmas Story. The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand is funny and heartwarming.