num_pages: 110
description: Meg Tallmadge has more than enough on her plate. Shes finishing up a college degree getting ready to apply to vet school and working another summer with her dad Stan on the family ranch in southern Wyoming. Hes managed to get the Los Angeles Times to send a reporter out to do a story on the Diamond Rock which doubles as a dude ranch. Meg knows the ranch needs all the publicity it can get to bring in more customers but shes not looking forward to babysitting a reporter for a week. When the originally scheduled reporter cant make it Meg worries that they wont get a story at all which is worse than dealing with a city slicker for a few days. Fortunately for Stan and the ranch the Times finds a replacement and Meg prepares to be under scrutiny under the gun and the perfect hostess. She knows what this opportunity means to her father and shes hoping that if it goes well itll ease some of the distance between them that resulted when she came out a few months earlier.What Megs not prepared for  and never expected  is the reporter herself and the effect she has on her. In spite of what she feels Meg cant risk the fallout that could result from overstepping a professional boundary. But as the week draws to a close it becomes clear that not taking a chance could be the biggest risk of all.Novella 35000 words (about 180 Kindle Fire pages)
language: None
title: From the Boots Up
publisher: Amazon