Sleigh Bells and Slain Belles

Things turn icy when Lena Andrews, the village's Christmas princess, is found dead following the ball in her bed. Sleeping next to her is Joshua Callahan, a detective with the sheriff's department and nemesis to Zachary Gagewood, the local bookstore owner and resident sleuth.

Zachary decides to put past slights aside in order to find the real killer. The prospects of Joshua's innocence grow dim when a second woman he'd been intimate with, a former beauty queen, also turns up dead. With the help of an old friend, can Zachary be Joshua's personal Santa Claus and give him the greatest gift of all-his freedom?