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The attractive city of Alpine in Washington’s Stream Foothills is decked-out in holiday finery, but family problems are making in the Alpine Advocate: Editor and publisher Emma Lord is worrying over how her brother and her son—both priests—will respond when she confesses her passionate affair with Sheriff Milo Dodge; House & Home editor Vida Runkel understands that her ruined grandson has gone off the rails; and Emma’s celebrity writer goes AWOL after learning that his child has escaped from jail. And still another Alpine household is performing the Christmas blues when Postmaster Roy Everson turns up with bones that'll or not participate in his mom, who’s been lacking going back sixteen years.But the absolute most troubling vacation problem could be the body present in the cave on Mount Sawyer. The corpse is that of the mature man, therefore it can’t be Mother Everson. Can there be a link between this long-ago disappearance and the bones found earlier downstream to the Skykomish River?