The Case Against Fili Du Bois

A stray child, an unsolved crime, a precious legacy. It is the early 1990s in the beautiful winelands of the Cape. Fili, adopted daughter of Martin and Ray Du Bois, is determined to prove herself a worthy heir to their French-heritage estate. The arrival of strangers on the boundary disrupts relations with the farm workers who have been on the land for generations. Fili strives to be a peace-maker amid rising tensions. But the birth of a true heir and a tragic death in the family threatens her own future at Du Bois Vineyards, and strikes at the dream of the Rainbow Nation. For Fili is accused of a crime…

How long, she wonders, will I live in this limbo of being neither guilty nor innocent?