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.