Faith Fairchild's father-in-law plans to celebrate his seventieth birthday by treating the entire family - his children, their spouses, and his grandchildren - to a weeklong stay at the Pine Slopes ski resort. All starts well until Faith discovers a body on one of the cross-country trails. Then Pine Slopes' star chef vanishes without a trace and one catastrophe follows another: a malicious prank, a break-in at the Fairchilds' condo and the sabotage of one of the chairlifts. Who is the mysterious woman living deep in the woods and what are Faith's nephew, Scott, and Ophelia Stafford up to? Family secrets abound as Faith struggles to salvage the reunion, and save her own life.

Caterer-detective Faith Fairchild takes on a case involving a ring of antiques dealers behind a string of burglaries in her quaint Massachusetts town.Stretched almost to the limit by the capricious demands of a Boston Brahmin bride-to-be, caterer and minister's wife, Faith Fairchild, faces real tragedy when she discovers the body of an elderly friend. Sarah Winslow had apparently surprised burglars ransacking her Aleford, Massachusetts house. No sooner has Sarah been laid to rest than the Fairchild's find themselves the next target - the parsonage is stripped of all their most precious possessions. Devastated and furious, Faith takes action, scouring pawnshops, antique marts, and auctions.As she finds some of their stolen property, Faith is drawn onto a dangerous path of larceny and corruption in New England's venerable antique business - a path that soon leads Faith straight to a killer!

Before she met and married the Reverend Thomas Fairchild and moved to sleepy little Aleford, Massachusetts, Faith Sibley Fairchild had a catering business in the most colourful, frenetic, and exciting city in the world...Young, ambitious and single in New York City in the late 1980's, Faith Sibley is energised by the early success of her Have Faith catering enterprise. But she's cast into an unexpected new role when she runs into old high school friend Emma Stanstead at a swanky uptown party: sleuth! An anonymous blackmailer is threatening to expose certain secrets of socialite Emma's less than glamorous past - thereby destroying her reputation and her conservative husband's fast-rising political career - and Faith fearlessly leaps into the fray.Though she lacks experience, Faith's keen instincts, insight and determination to unmask an extortionist quickly carry her deep into the high and low life of the bustling Big Apple. And when a murder raises the stakes, Faith realises that it's not just her friend's good name that is in peril...it is Emma's life itself!