Car mogul Daniel Walker is celebrating New Year's Eve alone. Or at least he thinks he is. The temperature is twenty degrees below zero outside, but he's roasting in his sauna with a bottle of Stolychnaya. Not only is he about to be rid of his wife, but he has just conned an older woman out of her family farm. Everything is going his way. At midnight, he runs outside naked for a quick roll in the snow. But when he tries to get back in the house, he can't. He's been locked out. The next morning he's found, frozen and covered in snow. When deputy sheriff Claire Watkins gets to the scene, she calls an ambulance, remembering that sometimes people in this condition can be revived. As the doctors pump warm fluids through his body, his loved ones gather: his model daughter Danielle, his soon to be ex-wife Sherri Walker. Claire learns of others who weren't happy with him: the son of the woman who sold the farm and the housekeeper's daughter who is giving birth to an unexpected child in the same hospital. While solving this midwinter crime, Claire realizes how tenuous love is and how frozen she's been since her first husband was killed many years ago. She has been happy living with Rich Haggard, but in this chilling season she finds she wants more. Maybe she's finally ready to step into the marriage he's wanted all along.
