A blizzard looms as an assassin stalks the halls of MacTavish's inn.

It's nearly Thanksgiving and bartender Avalon Nash has her hands full. Her movie star mom is unexpectedly in town, and there seems to be a corpse in the lobby-though Avalon has sworn off involvement with suspicious deaths. Instead, she bartends the soiree of a local painter, not knowing she's about to be immersed in an art-theft ring worth billions-which is plagued by a killer sent to deliver a deadly message.

As a snowstorm shuts down the mountain town of Tranquility, no one is safe-especially not Avalon and her mom.