The Bitterroots is a riveting new novel from New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author C. J. Box.The ties that bind can also burn. Former sheriff's investigator Cassie Dewell is trying to start her life over in private practice. She's her own boss and answers to no one, and that's just the way she likes it after the past few tumultuous years. All that certainty changes when an old friend calls in a favor: she wants Cassie to help exonerate a man accused of assaulting a young woman from an influential family.