A Perfect Blizzard. A Snowbound Lodge. And an Impossible Murder. Lila Lawson, a small-town reporter, planned to attend a journalism retreat at her favorite Colorado mountain lodge. Instead, her plans were shattered when a brutal mountain blizzard quickly moved in, and Lila finds the body of media mogul Victor Graystone, stabbed mid-signature . Cut off from the outside, Lila takes over, cataloging clues while fighting the urge to straighten every room she enters. The clues lead to seven disgraced rivals, including Jennifer Chen, a reporter whose career Victor destroyed, and Robert Nash, his enraged business partner. Only one problem: they all have airtight alibis . But when Lila and her loyal Collie, Ella , discover a hidden passage behind the wall, the plot thickens. The killer wasn't trapped with them; they were using the lodge as a hunting ground. Then Lila finds key evidence in a vast criminal plot. With a target on her back and nowhere to escape, staying one step ahead of the culprit is the only way she’ll make it out alive.