The Plowing of the Wicked

When RN Beatrice Haven's 23-year-old daughter is found dead in her apartment with an empty vodka bottle and several empty pill bottles beside her, the police rule it a suicide. Case closed. Five days later, Beatrice gets a frantic note Julie wrote hours before she died. It says she was thrown out of her college-sponsored accounting internship with YoungNSvelte Industries on trumped-up charges. Julie also enclosed a safety deposit box key. Beatrice opens the box and finds samples of YoungNSvelte's products. She has them analyzed and learns that the company illegally laces their diet and sleep aids with adulterated pharmaceuticals. The note, backed up by this evidence, convinces Beatrice that this company is selling toxic substances disguised as herbal supplements to the public and that they murdered her daughter to protect this secret. Outraged and devastated, she abandons everything she, as a devout Catholic, has held sacred all her life. She sets out to find her daughter's killers and make them pay, both for the life they took and the lives they're endangering. Before she's through, two more people will die and it becomes terrifyingly clear that if she doesn't drop her investigation, so could she. The Plowing of the Wicked is a story of vengeance vs. justice, grief vs. healing and despair vs. faith, and the jury is out on whether Beatrice will secure justice for her daughter, or lose her own soul.