On a freezing Christmas morning in Madison, Wisconsin, a distraught young man named Jeremy Davies leads police to a corpse he'd placed in a snowbank some hours before. They find a man's body, naked, bloody and beaten. Davies insists that he hadn't killed the man but that he and his fiancée, Barbara Hoffman, had simply buried a stranger's body. Hoffman had dropped out of university a few credits short of a degree, working in a local massage parlor for some time.

Soon, the police discover that Berge was an ex-lover of Hoffman's. He had signed over his house and insurance policy to her benefit and, further, Davies has also made her the beneficiary of his insurance policies. They suspect that Davies might also be in danger...

Now a major motion picture, WINTER OF FROZEN DREAMS is the true story of the passion and betrayal behind the first ever televised murder trial. Meticulously researched by author Karl Harter, this novel will have you in the edge of you seat, peering down into the cold abyss.