A Christmastide game of cat and mouse...

Holly Huxley's only focus this Christmastide is helping her grandfather distribute the toys he has been making for children everywhere all year. But her employer, a band of smugglers, and a surprise connection to her past have other ideas. Not to mention the handsome inspector who keeps turning up wherever she goes...

It's not enough that Nelson Wolcott, inspector for the Crown, has to contend with a band of slippery smugglers, an eccentric shopkeeper, and a dog that likes to wear clothes. Now he finds himself drawn to a mysterious woman with a secret.

And then Saint Nicholas goes missing!