The sixth Mercy Carr Mystery in which Mercy and Elvis must prove the innocence of a new friend accused of murder. Record snow and sleet and rain are pummeling Vermont and a wild boar has escaped from an exclusive hunting club nearbybut that wont stop a very pregnant and very bored Mercy Carr from hiking her beloved woods with her loyal dog ElvisShes supposed to be decorating the nursery and helping her mother plan the baby shower, but shed much rather be playing Scrabble with Homer Grant, a word-loving, shotgun-toting hermit living deep in the forest. But when she and Elvis drop by Homers cabin for their weekly game, they arrive to find an unknown dead manand no sign of Homer. As they search the woods, Mercy discovers a patch of devastation that could only be left behind by wild boarShes relieved when Elvis tracks Homer, injured but alive. But Homers troubles are far from over, as hes still the number one suspect and he remembers nothing of the attack. When another corpse wi