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New York Times bestseller Julia Spencer-Fleming returns to her beloved Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne mystery series It�s Christmas time in Millers Kill, and Reverend Clare Fergusson and her husband Russ van Alstyne - newly resigned from his position as chief of police � plan to enjoy it with their baby boy. On their list: visiting Santa, decorating the tree, and attending the church Christmas pageant. But when a beloved holiday parade is crashed by white supremacists, Clare and Russ find themselves sucked into a parallel world of militias, machinations and murder. Meanwhile, single mom and officer Hadley Knox has her hands full juggling her kids and her police work. She doesn�t want to worry about her former partner � and sometimes lover � Kevin Flynn, but when he takes leave from the Syracuse PD and disappears, she can�t help her growing panic that something has gone very wrong. Novice lawyer Joy Zh�o is keeping secrets from her superiors at the state Attorney General�s Office. She knows they wouldn�t condone her off-the-books investigation, but she�s convinced a threatening alt-right conspiracy is brewing � and catching the perpetrators could jump start her career. NYS Forest Ranger Paul Terrance is looking for his uncle, a veteran of the park service gone inexplicably missing. He doesn�t think much of an ex-cop and out-of-town officer showing up in his patch of the woods, but he�s heard the disturbing rumors of dangerous men in the mountains. In New York Times Julia Spencer-Fleming's latest novel, as Christmas approaches, these five people will discover their suspicions hang on a single twisting thread, leading to the forbidding High Peaks of the Adirondacks. As the December days shorten and the nights grow long, a disparate group of would-be heroes need to unwind a murderous plot before time runs out.