Culinary sleuth Angie Amalfi gets a potent holiday punch when a powerful earthquake strikes San Francisco. When it's over, Angie finds herself in a very different world, where nothing is as it should be, and nothing is as it seems. Not only are her fiance and friends acting beyond weird, Angie finds she's being stalked by "The Zodiac"—one of the Bay Area's most notorious serial killers ... from the 1970's! 

Angie quickly finds herself on a magic carpet ride straight into a stockingful of suspense. Although she struggles to find a way to stop this nightmare, in a season of surprises she finds herself feeling like Alice in Wonderland as her once merry Christmas grows curiouser and curiouser...