Aurora Teagarden is basking in the news of her pregnancy when disaster strikes her small Georgia town: four kids vanish from the school soccer field. Aurora's 15-year-old brother, Phillip, is one of them. When a dead body is found the local police and sheriff's department comb the county and Aurora and her new husband, true crime writer, Robin Crusoe, begin their own investigation. With Christmas approaching, Aurora is determined to find her brother . . . if he's still alive.