A Bitter Reckoning, A Harvest of Greed

Clare Hayes comes back to her hometown and finds the local farmers being squeezed by middlemen who offer far less than their crops are worth. Refusing to look away, she decides to stand between the growers and the buyers who have been taking advantage of them. Her return sets off a clash over fair dealing, and the villagers' livelihoods now hang on whether she can turn the tables on the greedy men who have been profiting from their hard work.