By Susan Wittig Albert

Thanksgiving leaves a scrambling China Bayles with little to be thankful for when her mother’s husband suffers a sudden heart attack.  China’s mother, Leatha, turns to assistant Sue Ellen, who is ending her marriage to a trophy game ranch foreman, to help her turn an old game ranch into a birders vacation retreat.  When Sue Ellen’s car swerves off the road and she dies, China investigates the accident’s potential link to a case of stolen fawns.