When former city detective Riley Hart returns to Maple Hollow for Christmas, she expects awkward dinners with her mother and a quiet escape from her recent shooting investigation. What she doesn't expect is to be dragged into the town's darkest legend.During a blinding snowstorm, a bone is discovered near the abandoned Drake house-the same area where seventeen-year-old Holly Drake vanished twenty years ago on Christmas Day. The case destroyed the Drake family and froze the entire town in fear.Now the snow is giving Holly back.Sheriff Tom Keller, Riley's former best friend and almost-something more, asks for her help. With a storm burying evidence, townspeople spreading rumors, and a shadowy figure watching from Holly's old bedroom, Riley realizes the truth never left Maple Hollow.Someone has been guarding a secret for two decades.Someone who will do anything to keep the past buried.And someone who knows Riley is getting too close.The Cold Case on Christmas Day is a winter murder-mystery thriller mixing emotional depth, small-town secrets, psychological tension, and a relentless unraveling of the past.