Two women are caught in a plan to rob a hospital of millions. One, Jenna Longstreth, is tough-as-nails, smart, and driven by a dark past that keeps her emotions roiling and ever brimming for a fight. The other, Drew Cotley, is a wallflower who wilts in the face of every challenge. Eye, Bear, Moody, Pace, and Buck are men turned inhuman by the lure of money. They need Drew's computer skills to pull off the job, but Jenna's an accidental co-victim, a bug in the plan and due for extermination. To live, Jenna must outwit the psychopath, Eye. She plans to convince him she's the perfect partner for doing evil. To do so, she has to revisit her worst nightmares and expose her deepest secrets to fool him. Can she? Bear's an obstacle, too. His mere presence paralyzes her with terrorizing recalls of her father's abuse. Will Jenna find a way to beat this behemoth? And can Drew muster the courage to fight for her life and to overcome her fear of Jenna's dark secrets? Do Jenna and Drew have the strength to outlast a brutal December blizzard? The answers may not matter; if Jenna and Drew can't find a way to make their unlikely partnership work, they will become The Dead of Winter.