Fertile Betrayal

Becky Bohan

In a rural Minnesota town, veterinarian Nedra Wells tries to get to the bottom of the fertility problems of the cows on a struggling farm.

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Veterinarian Nedra Wells has moved to a small town in Minnesota

to open her own mixed-animal practice. For years she has

envisioned being a country vet like her father, and after meeting

and falling in love with school teacher Annie Callahan, Nedra was

sure she could have it all–the career, the lover and life in a

small town. It’s what she’s always wanted. It should be perfect.

But it’s not. Nedra and Annie’s reception in town–as low-

profile, but unmistakable lesbians, has been polite, but cool.

Annie’s reservations about leaving their urban life have not been

replaced by a happy settling in. Her sense of isolation seems

only to increase with her fear that sharing a life with Nedra

will mean giving up her own. Against a backdrop of a possible

fracture in her relationship, Nedra’s practice confronts her with

a deadly health crisis in a local cattle herd. Baffled at first

by her inability to diagnose and treat the problem medically,

Nedra’s inquiry leads her into a broader investigation and

ultimately, to the solution of a very human problem.

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