When the blizzard slams the door,
justice and mercy knock last.
Newlyweds Ray and Grace Duke slip across the county line to celebrate their first anniversary in a rented mountain cabin—just as a record blizzard slams shut every road. Power flickers out, phones die, and the storm swallows all escape.
Then Ray’s friend, Sheriff Benson of neighboring Lake County, radios a favor: his own deputies are snow-stranded, could Ray hike up the ridge and check on an elderly recluse before the whiteout turns lethal? Ray agrees, leaving Grace alone to mind the fire.
While Ray’s “quick favor” becomes a gun-point standoff in the dark, Grace opens the door to a smooth-talking stranger who claims to be wrecked and freezing. With footprints erased, radios jammed, and dawn hours away, the couple will discover the blizzard isn’t the most dangerous force on the mountain—and that mercy and murder can be just Too Close to Call.