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We welcome back Dr. Rebecca Butterman, aka Dr. Aster, columnist for Bloom! magazine and local psychologist in the small town of Guilford, CT. Rebecca gets a very strange call in the middle of the night from the local police, asking her to attend her minister at the local hospital/urgent care center. Perplexed, she starts asking questions, but winds up traveling through the frosty temperatures to find out why her minister (whom she barely knows) called 911 from the home of a parishioner late on Friday night after finding her near death!

Reverend Wesley Sandifer was not under arrest - yet. But he refuses to speak with the police until Rebecca is present - and then he coerces her into taking the chair of a search committee for the church to replace the dead woman! Wondering why it was so important to him weighs on Rebecca's mind, but she is distracted by the presence of Detective Meigs, to whom she is attracted despite his married status. Using her training as a psychologist, Rebecca is able to ease the pastor's agitation so that he is able to tell the police the sequence of events leading up to the incident. Once she knows that no one is being arrested, she returns home but now her mind is buzzing with 'what ifs' - and not all of them have to do with the murdered woman.