LUCKY'S RANCH VOLUME TWO

LUCKY'S RANCH
Book Two: The Keeping

Kate Haskell comes home to the ranch expecting nothing but quiet - a few weeks of house-sitting, a dead tree to clear from the old orchard, some space to figure out why she can't seem to finish anything she starts.

Then her shovel turns up a bone.

What she finds beneath that tree - a man's bones, a rusted tin of ruined letters, and a second, better-hidden packet that survived a hundred and sixty years dry in the walls of her own house - unravels everything the Haskell family has quietly protected for six generations. A stranger named Silas Webb came here once to warn them of something. He never left. And the woman who kept his secret, who saved this family and never got her name spoken aloud, is buried in the silence right alongside him.

As Kate pieces together what really happened in that barn a century and a half ago, she has to decide what kind of Haskell she's going to be: one more link in a long line of people who loved each other by keeping things from each other - or the one who finally breaks it.

But some ground holds more than one secret. And the oldest thing Kate uncovers isn't the murder at all.

Lucky's Ranch: The Keeping is a story about the weight of what families bury to protect each other - and what it costs to dig it back up.