Can Lacey Smithsonian save Christmas? It's a Christmas in crisis at The Eye Street Observer, and guess who's taking the blame. The op-ed page is attacking gaudy holiday sweaters! The food editor is boycotting her baking! Lacey's two least favorite people at the news paper are on a murderous collision course! And a vicious unsolved attack in the alley (with an oversized candy cane?) has the whole newsroom on edge. Is Lacey ruining Christmas, or is all of Washington, D.C., ruining hers?!

To save Christmas, Lacey must unravel the secret of a mysterious child last seen wearing a shepherd's robe from a Nativity scene--and face--a killer who would destroy more than just a child's Christmas.