A Deadly Draught

Brewmaster Hera Knightsbridge is a woman in a craft dominated by men. She may have beer rather than blood flowing through her veins, but her fledgling brewery is in trouble. Drought is making water scarce for all the microbreweries in the Butternut Valley of upstate New York, but Hera also lacks capital to keep her operation in business. More serious problems arise when she finds her childhood sweetheart’s father, her most serious brewing competitor, bludgeoned to death in his own brew barn...