Preparations for the Yuletide festival are in full swing, and so is the gossip about a blackmailing villager. Sheriff Jayne O'Shea doesn't have time or patience for small-town rumors. After two long years overseas, her father is coming for a visit and everything has to be perfect. Then, just as everything is falling into place, the blackmailer is found dead.

Adding even more tension, strange packages start showing up on doorsteps around the village, each containing a clue as to how the giver intends to kill the receiver. Now, Jayne has to decide what's more important. Focusing on a murder that's already happened or trying to prevent six more.