Christmas should be the happiest time but at Pennington’s dramas are seething beneath the surface. For Cornelia Culford a divorce hearing looms where she could lose custody of her sons to her unfaithful husband. For Stephen Gower being head of security at Pennington's is the perfect refuge from a tragic past at Scotland Yard. But soon Joseph Carter and Elizabeth Pennington beg him to help solve the murder of Joseph's first wife now that the killer has struck again.

Part of the Pennington's Department Store series.