FF Inner Compass by Margo Moon

Someone is killing poachers in Tennessee's Appalachian foothills, and Canadian journalist Alexis Jule wants to investigate. So she wangles an assignment to show up before hunting season begins, hoping to get her bearings and talk to the locals. Her first interview is with a female hermit. But Faye Carson turns out to be like no hermit Alex could have ever imagined. Faye is also a chief suspect in the murders, and Alex finds herself navigating the rocky terrain of falling in love with a woman at the center of a murder investigation.

Inner Compass traces the limits of romantic rivalry and spans the gamut of responses to it - from tender acceptance to calculated murder.