It's the most wonderful time of the year in Gresham, where the newly restored Lonesome Pine Ballroom is finally ready to host its first event, the Gingerbread Ball. The event, put on by the Gresham Ladies Society, is a chance for adults to leave the children with babysitters and spend the evening in formal wear and celebrating the reason for the season-the Christmas Campaign for Coats, which makes sure all the children in Shawano County are warm for the winter. Things turn icy when Lena Andrews, the village's Christmas princess, is found dead following the ball in her bed. Sleeping next to...