If Amaya knew that taking this babysitting job on Christmas Eve would end with her chained up in front of a fireplace, she would have turned off her phone.While dangling from her wrists, with no idea how she wound up there, claws rake across her stomach. The beast paws at her nightie, sniffs her neck, and reaches for her breast. Just as she whimpers, it shatters her chains, throws her over its shoulder, and steals her back to its den.

The Krampus, a seven-foot furry monster, kidnaps her to his castle on the impenetrable mountains swarmed by blizzards. Amaya should be scared, but she isnt. Shes angry. She wants to know why she was chained up in the first place, why the Christmas god of punishment stole her away, and why she wants to grab his horns while riding that 12-inch tongue.