“Sir, can you hear me?” The man lying in the wash opened his eyes only halfway. His lips moved before sound came. “Water.” Mara Vail dropped from the saddle so...
Silverton, Colorado, November 1891. Before sunrise, eighteen-year-old Evelyn Hart stood behind her uncle’s house, tightening a rope across an old freight wagon while frost silvered the boards beneath her boots....
Felipe era un multimillonario de cuarenta años acostumbrado a que el mundo se inclinara ante él. Disfrutaba mostrando su poder casi tanto como disfrutaba mostrando su dinero. Para él, las...
“I just think you ought to wait,” her father said. “Build up before you take this on alone.” Mara Voss stood beside him at the fence line and looked across...
Black Hills, Dakota Territory, August 1883. The air lied beautifully that summer. It smelled of warm pine, sunbaked granite, and endless golden afternoons. It moved softly through the grass and...
I was forty years old when I stood on the courthouse steps holding the foreclosure papers that had just taken away everything my grandfather left me. The two-hundred-acre Montana ranch...
The gavel was already in the air when Margaret Hollis raised her hand. She stood near the back of the sale barn, one hand resting on the wooden rail along...
Everyone in Redstone turned away from the woman in the black veil. They called her sick. They called her ugly. Some called her worthless before they had even seen her...
Four dollars. That was all Marin Bellwood paid for the mare everyone else had discarded. When auctioneer Boyd Tiller brought down his gavel, laughter rolled across the dusty sale barn...
Part 1 The smoke from the grill kept blowing into my eyes, but I refused to step away because Derek would have complained if the steaks were overcooked. Behind me,...