The picturesque town of Alpine in Washingtons Cascade Mountains is decked out in holiday finery, but family troubles are brewing at the Alpine Advocate Editor and publisher Emma Lord is fretting over how her brother and her son—both priests—will react when she confesses her passionate affair with Sheriff Milo Dodge House Home editor Vida Runkel realizes that her spoiled grandson has gone off the rails and Emmas star reporter goes AWOL after learning that his son has escaped from prison. And yet another Alpine family is singing the Christmas blues when Postmaster Roy Everson shows up with bones that may or not belong to his mother, whos been missing for the last sixteen years.But the most disturbing holiday dilemma is the body found in the cave on Mount Sawyer.
