Apple orchard owner Meg Corey is finally feeling settled into her new life in Granford–she's made friends, and her relationship with Seth Chapin is heating up–when her old Boston coworker Lauren Converse comes barreling into town, running the Congressional campaign for a former hometown football hero. But Meg doesn't have time to worry about why Seth seems reluctant to back Lauren's campaign when her neighbor, local dairy farmer Joyce Truesdell, is found dead from an apparent kick to the head from one of her cows.
When an autopsy shows that the fatal blow actually came from a weapon, Meg is even more troubled. Popular opinion points to Joyce's husband as the culprit, but Meg can't help wondering if someone wanted the outspoken dairy farmer out of the way–but why? She'll have to find out who had a beef with the victim, before she's the next one to get creamed…
Things are going well for Meg, her first year was a success (with a slight profit!) and she and her manager Bree are thinking of expanding (with Seth being prepared to lease some land that isn't being used). Things are not going so well for one of the other local farmers though, a newish Dairy Farm leased some land from the township and the cows started to get sick, and then one of the Dairy owners ends up dead, was it due to an accident with a skittish young cow or something more sinister.
Whilst all this is happening Meg's friend and ex-colleague arrives back in town, she has thrown in her job in the financial sector and is helping a local man made good run for congress. The problem is the local man has links to the farmland that made the cattle ill, and as well as that Seth who normally likes everyone is very standoffish, Meg has a lot to think about and a lit to sort out (not least planting 1,000 new trees!)
Crafts and Life 
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