Crafts and Life

It's winter in the Bavarian village of Leavenworth, Washington, which for local brewmaster Sloan Krause means lots of layers, pine and citrus-flavored craft beers, and getting the new guest rooms at Nitro into pristine condition before visitors flood in for IceFest–a local tradition filled with fireworks, ice carving, and winter games of all varieties. But Sloan and her boss Garrett quickly learn that being brewkeepers turned innkeepers may not be as idyllic as it sounded.

While one couple staying with them seems completely smitten, a flashy group arrives in the evening demanding rooms. Sloan and Garrett are less than impressed, but agree to rent to them anyway. The night takes a turn when brewery patron Liv Paxton finishes her frothy pint and, with no previous plan for an overnight stay in Leavenworth, eagerly takes Sloan up on the offer of sanctuary from the snow–until she has a strange run in with some locals and the other guests. Sloan could be imagining things, but when Liv's room is found trashed the next morning, a hateful message painted on her car, and Liv herself is nowhere to be found, Sloan is convinced another mystery is brewing. With many of the potential suspects hunkering down under Nitro's roof, she knows her co-workers and friends won't be safe until she serves up the killer a hoppy pint of justice.

Winter in Leavenworth and this means skiing, frozen pipes, and good warming food and beer! Nitro (in the form of Garrett, Sloan and their assistant Kat) is having a soft opening of the b & b by opening to just one couple, however fate has a different plan when the aforementioned frozen pipes means a group of four people needing an alternative place to stay for the weekend … and Nitro is it! Then a single lady arrives also needing accommodation for a single night and they go from a soft opening to full scale! The new arrivals though bring trouble, one of the group of four is a loud mouthed braggart and the singleton winds up dead, murdered, and now Sloan is determined to find out who killed Liv do that Nitro can get Kevin, the VP of shouting his mouth off, out of Leavenworth.