A fantasy fiction tale set in the 21st century, about Alex, a St. Mary's University sophomore in Twickenham, England, who comes face-to-face with the ghosts of Marilyn Monroe, John Lennon, James Dean and Charles Dickens during Alex's time travel adventures. When Alex uses the power of a family key gifted to her by Horace Walpole, the Earl of Orford, she travels back to Italy and meets Michelangelo while he is painting the Sistine Chapel in the 1500s. Laced with historical details and quotes including Marilyn Monroe's when she said, "We are all stars and each one of us deserves to sparkle." Marilyn Returns makes you feel like the author has channeled Marilyn's spirit and the spirits of other legendary figures who are filled with advice from the afterlife.