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When Melanie Hogan is helping her best friend and hair salon business partner, Claire Davis, move into the house next door, they make a grave discovery. Literally. While storing moving boxes in Claire's backyard on a windy autumn night, they stumble upon a secret space in the back of the shed housing three gravestones. When Melanie discovers one to be that of six-year-old Zachary Swanson, her passion for children propels her to unearth the boy's history and find out why he was secretly tucked away. Melanie scarcely scratches the surface for answers when she meets malicious resistance from citizens of Birch Haven, Minnesota, resistance which only ignites her determination and spurs her to dig deeper. With someone determined to permanently stop her, it's too late to back out of her quest, and Melanie soon finds out that she will be digging her own grave if she doesn't find the answers lickety-split. With the help of Clair and Chief Police Detective, Levi Wescott, Melanie digs in her heels and begins to unravel the threads of a family cover-up to get to the bottom of a sinister secret. Will she live to reveal the secret or will she be forced to take it to her early grave?

When a body is discovered in the woods by Melanie's Minnesota lake house, it nearly gets both her and her estranged mother, Violet, killed. Melanie retreats to the familiar and comfortable surroundings of the beauty salon she owns with her best friend Claire, but when the details surrounding the death begin to unravel, Melanie is thrust into the middle of the investigation. When her grandmother, Rose Donnelly, is the next target, Melanie will stop at nothing to catch the killer. Melanie begins unraveling a tangled web of lies and deceit that finally reveals the painful truth of the question that has haunted her since youth. The truth that ultimately cuts her loose from the burden of her past that has held her captive for far too long and sets her on a path to freedom.

A joyous Christmas festival. Two best friends. What could go wrong?Melanie Hogan, owner of A Cut Above hair salon, discovers the holidays aren't always jolly when she receives an unexpected gift at the Birch Haven Christmas Festival. A dead body.Best friend and salon co-owner, Claire Davis, lands herself as the lead suspect. When Melanie's boyfriend, Homicide Detective Levi Wescott, is booted off the case due to a conflict of interest, Melanie is compelled to find the real killer herself.With only days left to go until Christmas, Melanie races to give Claire the perfect gift-her freedom. But as she begins unwrapping secrets of some unsavory characters, the looming deadline leads to unusual reckless and impulsive decisions, and she finds herself in a bit of a quandary. Can she catch the real killer before Birch Haven PD is forced to solve her own murder?