Old Debts

Ruth Pedersen trusted Curtis Redmond with her life—her sheep, her land, her loneliness across twenty-five brutal Wyoming winters. He was the one constant after Harold died, the man who kept everything standing. So when her granddaughter finds $340,000 missing from the ranch ledgers, Ruth faces something worse than financial ruin: the possibility that loyalty itself has been a lie. But the truth behind those payments runs deeper than betrayal, reaching across the high plains to the Wind River Reservation and a grief that mirrors her own.