Christmas Presence

Christmas in Mooselick River is all tinsel, twinkle lights… and murder.

After the year she’s had, Everly Dupree is ready for the holiday season—baking cookies, trimming the tree, guzzling eggnog, and indulging in one of her favorite traditions: the town’s annual Christmas lighting contest. Always an over-the-top spectacle, this year’s competition is fiercer than ever. Everly’s eccentric neighbor, Viola Montayne, has even transformed her yard into a glowing—if slightly eerie—shrine to her murdered son!

Then tenacious journalist Amber Hale knocks on Everly’s door demanding an interview, and all thoughts of holiday cheer vanish. Turns out, Everly’s philandering ex-husband did more than just break her heart—he embezzled a fortune from his family’s company and left her to take the fall. With the rumor mill in overdrive and her best friend, sharp-tongued lawyer Patrea, threatening to sue half the town, Everly’s stocking is already stuffed full.

But murder never takes a holiday, and in Mooselick River, even Christmas comes with a body count. As displays are sabotaged, old grudges resurface, and bitter rivalries boil over, it’s starting to look like, for someone, the lighting contest is about more than just dazzling decorations.

Then Amber turns up strangled with a string of Christmas lights, her corpse staged like a macabre holiday display—and her ghost becomes Everly’s newest problem. Even in death, Amber Hale is as relentless as ever, determined to solve her own murder. But the last person she interviewed before dying was Everly’s scheming ex-husband, Paul—tying her to the case whether she likes it or not.

The more Everly learns, the clearer it seems that Amber wasn’t just chasing a headline. She was running from something—and if Everly isn’t careful, she’ll become the next holiday tragedy Mooselick River has to sweep under the snow.

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