Murder at Blackmere Orchard: A Wedding, a Land Grab, and a Deadly Family Secret

About Murder at Blackmere Orchard: A Wedding, a Land Grab, and a Deadly Family Secret

At Blackmere Orchard, wedding bells should be ringing. Instead, there’s a body in the cider barn. Clementine “Clemmie” Hart is supposed to be helping Hart & Home manage heirloom décor for the society wedding of the season, not stepping into another murder.

But when the groom’s powerful father is found dead just hours before the vows, the celebration turns into a trap of old grudges, buried land claims, and family secrets sharp enough to kill. This time, the case is personal. The bride is Detective Sergeant Rowan Vale’s sister, and every step Clemmie takes risks wrecking the fragile trust she and Rowan have fought to build.

Worse, Hart & Home’s vintage wedding pieces may have been used to hide documents at the center of the crime. If Clemmie gets this wrong, she could lose Rowan, destroy the family business, and hand the town one more reason to blame the wrong woman. As the wedding marquee fills with whispers and the orchard closes ranks, Clemmie finds no shortage of suspects: a furious ex-wife, a desperate groom, a polished second wife, orchard partners with too much to lose, and a solicitor who knows exactly how dangerous old papers can be.

Because Roland Fenwick was not killed over a ruined wedding. He was killed because someone was about to steal land with a marriage license.