"Laurel Grant works as the social media manager for Buckeye State of Mind, an Ohio tourism magazine and website. She is most definitely not an owner of a farm--specifically, the owner of her twin sister Holly's farm just outside of Columbus--but she lets her boss think she is. Laurel only handles the social media for the farm, but she's happy to keep her little white lie going. And keep it going she must, when Gilbert--recently dumped by his wife--invites...

Resort developer Nigel Goodwin has bought out Misty Murphy's Mountaintop Lodge to pitch a new resort concept to investors. But then Goodwin's frozen body is found buried under a mound of snow.