It's Christmastime in idyllic Saddle Hill, Kentucky. As the town hums with the excitement of the season, no one suspects that something sinister is bubbling beneath its merry surface.

Old rivalries are reignited, and family tension reaches a breaking point when a special Christmas piece is stolen from Stockton's Jewel Palace and one of the town's prominent Santa Clauses is arrested for the crime.

Now it's up to Marian Bright, a veteran mall elf, to get to the bottom of a scandal that threatens to ruin relationships, businesses, and lives.