Sixteen-year-old Juli hopes her experience as a trial witness in a bank robbery case in Bellingham Bay, Washington, will give her material for writing mystery stories, until she and her church group friends receive death threats and warnings not to testify.

Juli Scott, Shannon Riley, and their friends look forward to the new school year, especially when their youth group leader, Kareem Thompson, offers to take them all to Mount Rainier to enjoy the early snowfall.