Bloodroot (China Bayles Mystery)

ISBN: 0425188140

Author: Albert, Susan Wittig

Condition: New

Lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles returns to the Deep South, where her familys legacy of silence is at last broken-and the past finally, unforgettably, speaks the truthA frantic phone call from her mother brings China back to her familys Mississippi plantation-a place shed forsaken long ago. But the late-spring air is thick with fear-and from the moment of her arrival, China knows that something has gone desperately wrong at Jordans Crossing. An ancient property deed has surfaced-and the man who uncovered it has mysteriously vanished. And as the fates and fortunes of two very different families collide in frightening, unpredictable ways, China must face disturbing new questions about her familys past-and her own future