Fall involves Pepin County with a vengeance seeing that Deputy Sheriff Claire Watkins confronts a fresh evil festering beneath the placid surface area of the Wisconsin farm community. A refugee from the Twin Cities, Claire has gradually adapted to small-town existence – especially now that she enjoys and lives with High Haggard. However in this rural area, other people are dangerously restless. One is Daniel Reiner, a wealthy part-time citizen who’s been buying up an excessive amount of property – at least so far as the local people are concerned..READING MORE on the subject of Poison Heart Another is gaming addict and aging silver digger Patty Jo Tilde, who recently married a widower twenty years her older. Patty is scratching to inherit her husband’s property, offer it to Reiner, and keep the countryside behind. The only obstacle – her husband must die. Add to the mix a dubious goat-herding daughter-in-law and a wounded elk, and stuff quickly reach a boiling stage. As Claire Watkins delves deeper in to the secret, she believes she’s uncovered a dangerous history of is situated, deceit, arson, and poison. Her issue is to show it – and she learns what happened to Patty Jo’s last hubby. . . .