The Last Lift Pass — A Frosty Peak Cozy Mystery, Book 1

A fifty-year-old blizzard. A missing heiress. A secret the mountain was never meant to give back.

At the historic Bluebird Lodge, tucked deep in Silver Crest Valley, Tess Morgan keeps everything in perfect order. As the lodge's quiet, watchful receptionist, she knows every creaking stair, every drafty corner room, and every old story the locals would rather forget.

Then a savage winter storm buries the roads and seals the lodge beneath a wall of snow—and Tess finds something that was never meant to surface. A forgotten suitcase in the attic. A vintage 1976 lift pass punched with a single heart. A bloodstained scarf. And a typed warning gone brittle with age.

For fifty years, everyone believed Julianna Vance simply vanished into the blizzard—a tragic accident the whole town chose to bury. But the evidence in that attic tells a colder story. Julianna may never have been lost to the mountain at all.

When a mysterious guest arrives asking questions about the old disappearance, Tess is pulled into a cold case that powerful people in Silver Crest Valley have spent half a century keeping frozen. With the storm closing in and the lodge cut off by firelight and suspicion, she must decide whom to trust—before the past claims another victim.

Warm, atmospheric, and rich with snowy lodge charm, The Last Lift Pass is the first book in the Frosty Peak Cozy Mysteries—perfect for readers who love small-town secrets, long-buried family lies, and one determined woman who refuses to let the truth stay buried beneath the snow.

Pour something hot, pull a blanket close, and settle in by the hearth. The snow is falling, the roads are closing—and the past is about to thaw.

Book 1 of The Frosty Peak Cozy Mysteries.