High-Caliber Cowboy

The characters still hold a high interest plot. There is a twenty year old murder mystery to be solved. The "Murder" was commited at Brookside Sanitorium that has been closed for the past 20 years. Room 9B is still just as spooky now as then. Anna Austin is looking for answers to the mystery of her mother's disappearance into Brookside and the lose of her child. Who did her mother have an affair with? Who was the father of the "stillborn" child? Brandon McCall was hired by Mason VanHorn's new foreman, Red Hudson to do night guard duty. Someone was vandalizing his coalbed methane gas wells. He hopes to be the one to catch the perp. Boy was he in for a surprise. He gets the chance to follow the dark shadow into the VanHorn ranch house and gets clobbered for his pains. He drags himself to Dr. Porter Ivers clinic to get some stitches. Ivers is a grouchy old man - his daughter,Taylor, now a doctor has come to Antelope Flats to help out. Lenore Johnson has disappeared - she is a private investigator and knew what she was getting into [almost]. Emma Ingles turns up dead - she was a night security guard at Brookside but something spooked her. Dr. Niles French and Mason VanHorn seem to have a couple of dark secrets that they shared. Mason usually has some "dirt" on most of the people that he deals with just to keep them in line. Brandon finally finds out what the big feud is that caused "bad blood" between the VanHorns and the McCalls [although the explanation is a bit passed over]. Sheriff Cash McCall is trying to find the connection between the 20 year old murder and the more recent ones and just about gets taken out. Brandon does not forsee a future for him and Anna no matter how much he wants her. He remembers the cherry popsicle. This has been the mostest mystery and in book #4 - WoW! All of the books holds your interest as far as the stories are concerned but Brandon's story [so far] really tops them all. Although the time frames of the characters - brothers - don't coincide. Brandon is 33 - that make it 3 years later from the first book. Rourke's baby should already have been born. Oh Well! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED --m -- Coming up now is Dusty's story with Ty Coltrane - strange, now she is jumping from 19 to 21?