The beginning of Rebecca's holiday break promises to bring great fun. Everyone is looking forward to her being home. The house is decorated, parties have happened, gifts are purchased and wrapped. They're ready. You didn't expect it to be that easy, did you? On a trip to pick up Christmas gifts, Polly and Henry pull over when they see a man stumbling on the side of the road. He dropped to the ground before Polly got to him. We all know the drill by now. It was time to call Sheriff Merritt. One week before Christmas. How could this happen? Who was Frank Mansfield? A nasty, ugly man who wielded power like a hammer. His money was the only thing he had going for him. Polly was thankful Henry was with her that morning after she heard the bitterness he held for Mansfield. That kind of anger might push anyone to murder. The hardest thing to tell Aaron was not that she found another body, but that Mansfield's estranged daughter had returned to Bellingwood. A sweet young woman who was here to search for a friend who had gone missing. The last person this woman wanted to see was her father, but she had every reason to kill him. Polly worried that an opportunity to remove the threat to her and her son had arisen. Welcome back to Bellingwood.
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