Caterer Faith Fairchild has a bad feeling about her father-in-law''s decision to celebrate his seventieth birthday with a family reunion ski week at the Pine Slopes resort in Vermont -- the Fairchilds'' favorite getaway since Faith''s husband, the Reverend Thomas Fairchild, was a toddler. At first her unease seems unfounded -- until Faith comes across a corpse on one of the cross-country trails, the apparent victim of a heart attack.
Then one catastrophe follows another: the mysterious disappearance of the Pine Slopes'' master chef, a malicious prank at the sports center, a break-in at the Fairchild condo, the sabotage of a chairlift. And when a fatal "accident" with the snow-making machines stains the slopes blood red, Faith realizes she''ll have to work fast to solve a murderous puzzle -- because suddenly not only are the reunion and the beloved resort''s future in jeopardy . . . but Faith''s life is as well.