Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage, is secretly commissioned to discover the truth behind the death of an obscure rabbi in the Roman backwater of first-century Palestine while also being engulfed in her own turmoil--facing the prospect of an arranged marriage to a Roman soldier, Alban, who seems to care for nothing but his own ambitions as leader of the Roman garrison near Galilee.

When a professional hockey player comes to Greenfield with plans to build an ice skating rink, but equipment turns up missing during practices, the Alden children suspect that someone in town wants to stop the project.