When Ember Quinn visits Christmas Village to assist her elderly great-aunt Phoebe in the holiday chocolate making tasks, the last thing she expects is for an elf to get murdered at their back door.

She soon discovers that toy making elf, Alfie Svenson, was up to no good. Not only that, but he had a mysterious accomplice.  Too bad Ember suspects that accomplice might be Phoebe. 

With the reluctant help of Brimstone the snarky cat, Ember must dodge lying elves, creepy snowmen, unfriendly reindeer, an angry toy factory manager and a sleigh transportation boss who might be involved in organized crime in order to find the real killer.

When Augusta (Gus) Chance takes a break from her duties as Sheriff of Mystic Notch to indulge in her hobby of playing jazz piano in Christmas Village she never imagines that a surprise from her past will cause her to become embroiled in the investigation of a suspicious death.

She soon discovers that Christmas Village isn’t the idyllic holiday retreat that it appears to be. Something sinister is lurking beneath all that Christmas cheer and the village regulars are harboring dangerous secrets. 

What does the murder have to do with the maids-a-milking, the swans-a-swimming and the partridge in the pear tree? Gus is on a mission to find out, but she soon discovers that solving a murder is not so easy when you don’t have the benefit of a sheriff’s badge.