Cultivating the Truth

<p><strong>BETRAYAL REAPS A BITTER HARVEST</strong></p><p> </p><p>Private Investigator Dorothy Dennehy is approached by a potential client who tells of a crime not yet committed. She dismisses the rants of a disgraced winery estate partner preferring to focus on the running of Maxwell's Bar and Grill.</p><p> </p><p>Her right-hand investigator HB has taken over much of the caseload for Quail Investigations but before long Dorothy is pulled into a strange kidnapping case and a dysfunctional family who own and operate a successful winery in Oregon's Willamette Valley.</p><p> </p><p>Suspicions and theories abound. When the kidnap plans go south the prime suspect becomes a dangerous threat to anyone involved.</p><p> </p><p>The complicated case brings new relationships into Dorothy's life raising old feelings to the surface. Will a long simmering potential romantic interest finally be realized? Or will the goal of a dangerous felon shatter it to pieces?</p>