Against All Odds: Trail to Twin Buttes Book 1
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  • Reads 1,069
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  • Parts 24
  • Time 5h 40m
Ongoing, First published May 17, 2017
It all started with a newspaper ad.  Lillian "Lilly" Farlow has been struggling to keep the Twin Buttes Ranch, left to her by her father when he died, running.  Determined to keep the home she loves for her and her twin siblings, Hope and Daniel, she answers an ad in a newspaper and agrees to become a partner in the Sunrise Stage Line.  
Katherine "Kat" McKay, the owner of the stage line, is looking for a fresh start after her parents died in a steamboat explosion, leaving her with 2  stagecoaches and a couple teams of horses and a pile of debt.  After selling off the family mansion and estate, and placing an ad in multiple newspapers out west, she receives an answer from a small mining town called Yankee Flats. 
Working together the two women, along with Rye Talbot, Lilly's foreman, Lilly's long lost brother Langdon, an former soldier turned alcoholic turned wrangler, and a runaway girl, they manage to outlast a greed crazed mother, an ambitious banking family, and the elements to beat the long odds against them.  

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