No one thinks of murder on Christmas Eve. Last Christmas, Everleigh Greene witnessed a man climbing out of a window in the house next door.

Turns out the man had something other than burglary on his mind that night. Now he's now on trial for the attempted murder of her twenty-year-old neighbor.

This Christmas, Everleigh wants to ignore the holiday almost as much as she wants to forget she's the key witness in the upcoming trial. She's ready to put both the holiday she used to love and the trial behind her-if someone doesn't silence her first.

Luke Douglas comes to his grandfather's house to recover from an injury sustained while working undercover-the perfect place to lie low until he meets his attractive neighbor. When she goes missing after a Christmas party, the threatening note impaled to her front door with a butcher knife catapults him heart first into danger.

Can he uncover the person responsible before her holiday takes a deadly turn. If she'll trust him, both his protection and his heart might become her greatest Christmas gift.

But only if he can keep her alive. .