Reckless Harvest

Cowgirl Meets Cote d’Azur…

Part detective, part treasure hunter, Lydia Surreault has achieved astounding success finding things for people…everything from forgotten paintings to her most recent and highest of high profile discoveries… the long lost Porsche that Steve McQueen drove in the movie “24 Hours at Le Mans.” It’s a coup that has put her one-person agency, ‘Finders’ on the front page of the New York Times, vaulting her into a prominence she neither sought nor desired.

For Lydia has had it with the ‘good life’…the travel, the upscale restaurants, the fancy parties and insider invitations…and an increasingly long list of Metrosexual suitors. Lydia cringes at yet another text message on her I-Phone. ‘Hey, if you’re in town let me know, we could hang out…’ She restrains herself from replying, ‘shave your trendy-two-day beard and grow a pair first.’ She’s decided to turn her back on the Big Apple and return to the Montana ranch where she was born and raised. Perhaps in the still rugged West, she can find a man who will ignite the smoldering, but long dormant passion within her.

As Lydia prepares to bid farewell to New York, she has a chance meeting with Sean Berwick, a mysterious and extraordinary European blue blood. Heavily reliant on his finely honed intuition, Sean is a man who flows with the situation, seizes opportunities and trusts his decisions. In an instant he throws Lydia’s life and future plans into disarray, persuading her to return with him to the Cote d’Azur to solve a century old mystery surrounding a fabled seaside Villa. Lydia reluctantly agrees to take on ‘one last case’ only to be thrust into a world of glamour and excess best summed up as, “a sunny place for shady people.” And even as Lydia falls for Sean, and the paradise of southern France, her unfailing intuition and nose for minutiae uncover a series of secrets that will severely test her loyalty to him and jeopardize the very people she has come to know and love.