title: Protecting Her Own
author: Courtright, Rhobin
description: Amanda Blanchard’s ex-husband caused her present predicament—cash-poor except for her centennial family farm. Property taxes are overdue but she has a good job, and she has a mare pregnant with a foal whose sale will pay those taxes. To sell the last of her father’s prize Morgan horses seems unimaginable, but she must secure her home to raise her daughter, Kari. Land developer Wade Preston sends her a letter threatening foreclosure if she doesn’t sell him her land. In a face-to-face confrontation she tells Wade she will not sell, but their paths cross again when she finds him in her orchard, shot. A storm has knocked out the old farmhouse’s electricity and phone. She needs to save Wade’s life, but will whoever shot him try to finish the job? Will whoever wounded him harm her and Kari, too?