Shadow Chase: Mystery, Suspense and Romance at a Hill Country Dude Ranch
by Stephanie P. Logue
Category: Fiction

When Paula Wunderlich receives a letter from absent husband Bruce asking for a divorce, she and daughter Hope travel to Wunderland Dude Ranch in the Texas hill country in an effort to restore the family. However, something is terribly wrong at Wunderland. Bruce alternates between resenting Paula and making feeble efforts at reconciliation. Handsome wrangler Ike Ryan is hostile. Beautiful Annelise Sequeira's tentative offer of friendship is withdrawn when her neglected son, Tully, adores Paula. Wrangler Dean Skymore finds Paula amusing. Attorney Al Hines' arrival further complicates the picture. Paula's sole quest in leaving home for Wunderland was to win back her husband. Instead, she becomes embroiled in the mystery of a young girl's disappearance, distressed by Tully's neglect and involved in a community effort to start a Christian school. Before it is over, Paula is thrown from a deliberately spooked horse and trapped in a burning building. These physical pains cannot match the pain of her broken heart when she learns of Bruce's betrayal. And when Bruce tries to rescue her from the fire and is critically injured, she must decide whether to forgive Bruce and restore her marriage or leave him and learn to love again with Ike.