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Seasoned hands in the bunkhouse reminisced about old times and tried to top one another’s stories. The fresh-faced newcomers listened intently to the tales, never knowing what was truth and what was pure exaggeration.

Though the lady boss was a savvy woman and rarely got taken in by the wild yarns spun around a campfire, she’d fallen for a good-looking, smooth-as-silk stranger in a heat-flash.

If someone had told the crew in the bunkhouse what was happening up in the big house, none of the boys would’ve believed a word. Anybody who knew Elise Winston knew she wasn’t a gullible gal. She was foolish over only one thing-the land that had belonged to her family for better than a century. Never would she lose her head because of some man.