When the dead body of a young woman is found near a trail at one of Vermont's popular ski mountains, the case falls to Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI). They quickly have a suspect, who confesses, but the whole squad isn't convinced - the evidence is thin at best. At the same time, a local firm is being targeted with acts of sabotage - a warehouse fire, a vandalized truck, a massive cooling system destroyed - resulting...