"It’s Christmas time in Detroit and the A&E Mall is festooned in seasonal cheer, but all is not well beneath the decked halls. The joyous mood is broken by a series of fights, culminating in a hospital stay, and owner Aloysius Hardwick calls in a personal favor from Teresa Martinez—codename Lancer. Unbeknownst to him, she’s on a field sabbatical while recovering from her last mission in Mexico and isn’t quite at one hundred percent. However, Martinez can’t resist the call of fieldwork and she steps in to help. With one hand tied behind her back, will Martinez be able to get to the bottom of the trouble at the A&E Mall before someone else gets hurt?"