title: Blood Fruit
author: Samoranos, Karen Kennedy
description: At age twenty-five, Maddie's had her fill of men who mock her career choice. As a licensed general contractor, she's paid her dues in a traditionally male-centric field. Whatever the conflict, Maddie can always rely on the strength of Benités family culture as a talisman. But Maddie's sense of invincibility is shattered when a young man claims to be her father's child, conceived during a decades-old affair. Deeper than her grief in family secrets, is her cynicism in her father's past deception, and misguided outrage at her mother's betrayal. When her sister Mallory is charged with murder, Maddie must decide between a moral imperative or protecting Benités family secrets at all cost.