The Forest

When the heiress of a business enterprise hires IFS to restructure the business, a diminutive systems expert must untangle false invoice, hidden labs and family loyalties before the cartel that uses the company for smuggling silences her and destroys a town.

Saskia van Essen arrives at Woodgrove to help work with the heir, Peter, to restructure a family timber business, Rowland Enterprises. Small in stature but vast in skills – finance and systems – Saskia's an outsider welcomed into a family that believes in stewardship of its forest, its employees and its township. She expects paperwork and community meetings.

What she finds is darker: invoices for furniture that never existed, shipments of timber that don't match their declared origin, and a bypassed IT system whose vanished files point to deliberate erasure. As Saskia methodically maps people, money and forest lots, her presence disturbs the crime underbelly that's infected the business and the timber town.

Pushed to act by a horrific discovery that almost ends her life, Saskia must act quickly to unveil the truth without destroying the community she's come to admire.

How can Saskia force the truth to the surface when loyalty, blood and profit are braided together?