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When eighteen-year-old Mara Quinn walks onto the Yellowstone Dutton Ranch looking for work, she isn't just searching for a job-she's hiding from a past that refuses to stay buried. A survivor of the troubled teen industry, foster care, and a life spent running under borrowed names, Mara knows how to disappear. What she doesn't know is how to stay.
As the ranch slowly takes her in, old ghosts begin to surface: a missing child poster from Utah, hush money, and people who would rather the truth stay silent. With Rip Wheeler and Lloyd Pierce quietly closing ranks, Mara must decide whether the ranch is just another temporary refuge-or the first place worth fighting to remain whole.