Showing Cut and Dry by Jo Dereske

In Michigan's northwest country, forgery expert Ruby Crane has returned to the land where she grew up and from which she fled, living in her family's lakeside cabin and watching her daughter slowly recover from a near-fatal car accident. Ruby is watching the man who watches her from across the lake with a pair of binoculars - until a murder brings them together. Now, with passions running high and a heat wave wilting the poplars of a once peaceful Michigan town, the prodigal daughter finds an unlikely alliance in the solitary man who is running out of time.