Boston, 1870. When news of Charles Dickenss sudden death reaches his struggling American publisher, James Osgood sends his trusted clerk, Daniel Sand, to await the arrival of Dickenss unfinished final manuscript. When Daniels body is discovered by the docks, with Daniels sister Rebecca at his side, Osgood races the clock through a dangerous web of opium dens, sadistic thugs, and literary lions to solve a geniuss last mystery and save his ownand Rebeccaslives.