Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law's
decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski
week at the Pine Slopes resort in Vermont -- the Fairchilds' favorite
getaway since Faith's husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, was a
toddler. At first her unease seems unfounded -- until Faith comes across
a corpse on one of the cross-country trails, the apparent victim of a
heart attack.
Then one catastrophe follows another: the mysterious disappearance of
the Pine Slopes' master chef, a malicious prank at the sports center, a
break-in at the Fairchild condo, the sabotage of a chairlift. And when a
fatal "accident" with the snow-making machines stains the slopes blood
red, Faith realizes she'll have to work fast to solve a murderous puzzle
-- because suddenly not only are the reunion and the beloved resort's
future in jeopardy . . . but Faith's life is as well.